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Focus Tag: Climate Change
Greta Thunberg’s Online Attackers Reveal a Grim Pattern | WIRED
by Emma Grey Ellis
March 6, 2020
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is 17 years old, legally a minor. Despite her age, in the past week, numerous…
Washington Post Amplifies Climate Change Denialism From the Heartland Institute | VICE
by Karl Bode
February 25, 2020
The Heartland Institute has spent decades peddling pseudoscience on behalf or major corporations. From helping big tobacco downplay smoking cancer…
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots | The Guardian
by Oliver Milman
February 21, 2020
The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being reshaped by an army of automated Twitter bots, with a…
Congress urges Google to act against climate misinformation on YouTube | CNBC
by Jennifer Elias
January 28, 2020
Congressmembers are calling for Google to take action against climate disinformation. The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis wrote a letter addressed…
Climate Change and Conspiracy: Networked Disinformation | Data & Society
by Author on Source
January 27, 2020
EPISODE SUMMARY Joe Mulhall, senior researcher at European anti-extremism NGO HOPE not hate, explores how the international far-right is leveraging…
Information Ethics Roundtable 2020 “Scientific Misinformation in the Digital Era” | The Ethics Institute
January 21, 2020
"The Information Ethics Roundtable is a yearly conference that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines, including but not…
YouTube’s algorithm is pushing climate misinformation videos, and their creators are profiting from it | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Hanaa’ Tameez
January 17, 2020
When an ad runs on a YouTube video, the video creator generally keeps 55 percent of the ad revenue, with…
Comment threads can influence climate change attitudes by altering perceived consensus | PsyPost
by Eric W. Dolan
December 9, 2019
The comment sections of blogs can influence perceptions of consensus, which can in turn influence beliefs about climate change, according…
Cranky Uncle game takes on climate crisis denial and fake news | The Guardian
by Jessica Murray
December 9, 2019
A new game promises to act as a “vaccination” against climate crisis denial and fake news by teaching users about…