Climate misinformation on Facebook ‘increasing substantially’, study says
by Kari Paul from Technology | The Guardian on (#5RG7C)
A new analysis reveals that thousands of climate misinformation posts received up to 1.36m views everyday
The scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is staggering" and increasing quite substantially", a new analysis of thousands of posts has found.
A report released on Thursday by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent watchdog group, and the environmental non-profit Stop Funding Heat, analyzed a dataset of more than 195 Facebook pages and groups. Researchers found an estimated 45,000 posts downplaying or denying the climate crisis, which have received a combined total of between 818,000 and 1.36m views.
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