Revealed: How Facebook, Google Platformed Climate Lies During COP26 And Beyond

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The world’s largest social media and search platforms have continued to promote content containing climate misinformation, as the forces of climate denial and delay develop new ways to bypass rules intended to stop them.

In the Avaaz investigation, the researchers looked at Facebook posts from five known climate “misinformers”: the organizations PragerU and Turning Point USA; American conservative pundit John Stossel; Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg; and Australian television personality Alan Jones.

PragerU came out on top, with 61 posts containing climate misinformation reaching 24.2 million views. Turning Point USA came second, with just five of its posts achieving a total of 10.9 million views.

Among the Facebook ads determined to be misleading was one from PragerU about power failures in Texas early in 2021. The ad made the claim that widespread installation of renewable energy generation in Texas was behind the blackouts. State energy officials had already conceded that the outages were caused mainly by a lack of output from fossil fuel-powered facilities and nuclear power plants....

 

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The center for countering digital hate? So if you deny climate alarmism, you are engaging in hate The world has truly gone mad.

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