Facebook algorithm ‘pushes conspiracy theories at climate change sceptics’

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Facebook’s automated algorithms push climate change sceptics to read increasingly extreme conspiracy theories and misinformation about global warming

Instead of recommending reliable sources of information about climate change to those who deny that human activity is warming the atmosphere, Facebook’s algorithms push sceptics ever further

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

 

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Wake up Republicans we need to do something about Global Warming and Climate Change .... NOW !

To manipulate reality is to manipulate words. Change the definition of a word to change ones thinking and the use of those words....The same goes with false information.

In an attention economy, you don't fall down a Facebook/Youtube wormhole, you are pulled through. It doesn't matter what you are served as long as you stay glued to the screen

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