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Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse

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Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse

By Jill Hopke, DePaul University

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The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking program and otherwise reduce content moderation raises the question of what content on those social media platforms will look like going forward.

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The Climate Fight Is Now The Idiocracy Fight

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We’re not supposed to say it. We’re supposed to have nuanced, sophisticated views that respect everyone as intelligent, brilliant human beings — some of whom just need a little bit of support. But the fact is: humans are by and large stupid. We are a species full of misinformation, challenged … [continued]

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