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This week a new report found that the future success of climate change policy is threatened by targeted attacks from social media. At the same time big tech CEOs were questioned by members of Congress for five hours on how their platforms have allowed extremism and misinformation to proliferate. There seem to be no good answers […]
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by Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer Facebook has announced that it will be adding a new section to its platform to debunk and fact-check myths about climate change. The new climate information “hub” will be developed in collaboration with climate experts from George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and the University of Cambridge. Despite […]
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by Amy Lupica, ODP Contributing Writer On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined Parler, a conservative social media app that claims to promote and protect “freedom of speech.” Since the app’s launch in 2018, it has garnered notoriety for its policy of not fact-checking or censoring content on its platform, placing itself in opposition […]
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by Natasha Lasky and Miro Korenha A recent study from online network analysis firm Graphika suggests that the loudest voices perpetuating climate change denial have started sharing content and hashtags from the QAnon conspiracy movement. Researchers speculate that this partnership is tactical, as followers of the QAnon movement— who are already skeptical of science — […]
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As Rachel Koning Beals wrote for MarketWatch yesterday, “Facebook, long targeted by critics for allowing misinformation on global warming and other environmental developments to populate users’ social-media feeds unchecked, announced it will launch a new information hub to provide “science-based information” about climate change.” NPR’s All Things Considered further explained that “Users in the U.S., […]
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In 2016, social media platforms were revealed to have helped propaganda spread unchecked. As a result, there have been many calls to more stringently regulate and break up social media companies like Twitter and Facebook. In recent weeks though, while Twitter has taken steps to fact-check more of its content (including the President’s), Facebook has […]
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