{"id":2181,"date":"2021-12-01T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T08:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/01\/climate-misinformation-on-facebook-increasing-substantially-study-says-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2021-12-01T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T08:25:59","slug":"climate-misinformation-on-facebook-increasing-substantially-study-says-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/01\/climate-misinformation-on-facebook-increasing-substantially-study-says-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate misinformation on Facebook \u2018increasing substantially\u2019, study says &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>A new analysis reveals that thousands of climate misinformation posts received up to 1.36m views everyday<br \/>First published on Thu 4 Nov 2021 07.00 GMT<br \/>The scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is \u201cstaggering\u201d and \u201cincreasing quite substantially\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/stopfundingheat.info\/facebook-in-denial\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a new analysis<\/a> of thousands of posts has found.<br \/>A report released on Thursday by the Real <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Facebook<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s release coincides with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/cop26-glasgow-climate-change-conference-2021\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Cop26<\/a> climate summit in Glasgow and it urges governments to seriously consider the role of climate misinformation on social media in derailing the battle to<strong> <\/strong>reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<br \/>\u201cThis is where the ambitions of Cop26 and the revelations of the Facebook Papers collide, with our data showing Facebook is among the world\u2019s biggest purveyors of climate disinformation,\u201d researchers said.<br \/>The study analyzed 195 pages known to distribute misinformation about the climate crisis using Facebook\u2019s analytics tool, CrowdTangle. Of those, 41 were considered \u201csingle issue\u201d pages. With names like \u201cClimate Change is Natural\u201d, \u201cClimate Change is Crap\u201d and \u201cClimate Realism\u201d, these groups primarily shared memes denying climate change exists and deriding politicians attempting to address it through legislation.<br \/>Those that were not \u201csingle issue\u201d groups included pages from figures like the rightwing politician Marjorie Taylor Greene, which posted misleading articles and disinformation about the climate crisis.<br \/>This \u201crampant\u201d spread of climate misinformation is getting substantially worse, said Sean Buchan, the research and partnerships manager for Stop Funding Heat. Interactions per post in its dataset have increased 76.7% in the past year, the report found.<br \/>\u201cIf it continues to increase at this rate, this can cause significant harm in the real world,\u201d he said.<br \/>A spokesman for Facebook took issue with the methodology of the study, suggesting not all posts flagged in the report represented disinformation.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019re focused on reducing actual climate misinformation on our platform, which is why we partner with a global network of factcheckers and reduce the distribution of anything they rate as false or misleading and reject any ads that have been debunked,\u201d he said.<br \/>Facebook previously stated it continues to counteract the spread of misinformation by flagging climate information and referring users to its Climate Change Science Center, which contains data from credible sources on the climate crisis.<br \/>On Tuesday, Facebook\u2019s vice-president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/11\/our-commitment-to-combating-climate-change\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">announced<\/a> that the center would expand to include more countries and information labels, which it adds to posts about the climate crisis for additional context.<br \/>By Facebook\u2019s own count, the Climate Change Science Center receives about 100,000 daily visits globally \u2013 a fraction of the number of users who view climate misinformation, according to the study. Facebook has 2.9 billion monthly active users.<br \/>As the Cop 26 climate summit continues, activists are calling on the US Congress, the UK parliament and the EU parliament to pass legislation targeting Facebook\u2019s massive power in light of its inability to stem climate misinformation.<br \/>\u201cFacebook cannot and will not police themselves,\u201d the Real Facebook Oversight Board said in a statement. \u201cWe need real, independent, transparent outside oversight and regulation and an investigation into all of Facebook\u2019s activities \u2013 including the dangerous spread of climate disinformation.\u201d<br \/>Misinformation on Facebook \u2013 about climate change and other issues \u2013 is largely driven by a small number of sources. The study released on Thursday found 78% of the advertising spending identified came from just seven pages, all of which were flagged one year ago in a previous report. Facebook has previously declined to remove the pages.<br \/>Facebook has long been criticized for the spread of climate misinformation on its platforms. In May 2021, progressive non-profit Avaaz reported an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/campaign\/en\/facebook_climate_misinformation\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">25m views of misinformation related to climate science and renewable energy<\/a> within just 60 days in the US.<br \/>The latest study comes days after a separate report this week showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/02\/super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">just 10 publishers<\/a> are responsible for 69% of digital climate change denial content on Facebook, including more than 6,983 articles in the past year denying the climate crisis.<br \/>The problem is exacerbated by the unequal way in which Facebook moderates its content around the world, Buchan said.<br \/>Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee turned whistleblower, recently revealed that 87% of Facebook\u2019s spending on misinformation goes to English-language content, despite the fact that only 9% of its users are English speaking.<br \/>\u201cThat is a very high percentage, and it means there is a whole load of Facebook users being left out,\u201d Buchan said. \u201cThere are whole populations who enjoy the Facebook service, and that Facebook is profiting from, while not actually taking care of them.\u201d<br \/>This article was amended on 4 November 2021 to correct the number of climate misinformation posts identified by the study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/04\/climate-misinformation-on-facebook-increasing-substantially-study-says\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis reveals that thousands of climate misinformation posts received up to 1.36m views everydayFirst published on Thu 4 Nov 2021 07.00 GMTThe scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is \u201cstaggering\u201d and \u201cincreasing quite substantially\u201d, a new analysis of thousands of posts has found.A report released on Thursday by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}