Twitter Ranked Dead Last on Climate Misinformation Scorecard
Twitter Ranked Dead Last on Climate Misinformation Scorecard
Climate scientists and activists have since fled the platform now known as X since the Elon Musk takeover last year.
Climate scientists and activists have since fled the platform now known as X since the Elon Musk takeover last year.
A report released on Wednesday by Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), a coalition of more than 50 environmental groups, scored several social media platforms. The company with the most points ranked the highest in fighting climate misinformation.
The platforms could receive up to 21 points from a combination of categories including transparency, advertising, policy content, and enforcing their rules on climate misinformation. X only received a single point for “lacking clear policies that address climate misinformation, having no substantive public transparency mechanisms, and offering no evidence of effective policy enforcement,” the report said.
All other platforms ranked higher. YouTube came in second to last with 6 points. Meta and Instagram tied at 8 points, TikTok received 9 points. Pinterest came out on top with 12 points.
“Pinterest has been pretty proactive with working with our coalition in regards to having a content moderation policy that addresses climate change misinformation,” Erika Seiber, a spokesperson for Friends of the Earth and Climate Action Against Disinformation Coalition, told Earther.
Though social media users can always log off, researchers reasoned that it is important to hold these platforms accountable for their lack of climate misinformation policies, or for the lack of regular enforcement. Americans are increasingly getting their information about breaking news and social issues from social media apps. A 2021 report from the Pew Research Center outlined that almost half of U.S. adults regularly received their news from social media.
“[Platforms] have a substantive impact on the way that we talk about climate change, climate solutions, renewable energy, and climate policy as a whole,” Seiber explained. “All the extreme weather events that have happened over the summer, whether it be the heat waves or the wildfires in Hawaii, misinformation has created a lot of confusion around the cause of the fires.”
Before Elon Musk purchased the platform last year, the app had once banned advertisements that contradicted climate science. But now it’s not clear how new leadership has addressed this, if at all. “Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company has created uncertainty about which policies are still standing and which are not,” the report said.
The Climate Action Against Disinformation Coalition reached out to X and the other platforms mentioned in the report while compiling the information but did not receive a response from X. Seiber explained that before Musk purchased the website, environmental justice organizations like Friends of the Earth had a reliable contact with X when it was still Twitter. But Musk stripped down the company’s content moderation team which led to less insight into how the company handles misinformation.
The Musk takeover of X, formerly Twitter, has had other consequences. Environmentalists and experts who once used the site for education and community building began to see a shift in their online interactions. This sparked an exodus of climate voices.
“There’s been a massive change. I get so much abuse and rude comments now,” Mark Maslin, a climate scientist professor at University College London, told The Guardian this year.
You're viewing a single thread.
CAAD = Communist action against dissent
I hope Twitter becomes a huge nostr relay.
Shoo, the grown ups are trying to talk.
Go ahead, talk. Have your tea time. I said my piece.
k bye
Bye bye 👋
Do not let those bed bugs bite.
I remember the days when I thought climate change was not real. Before I started listening to climate scientists on youtube present their evidence and debunk the really poor claims that climate change is false.
Ignorance is bliss.
I say this from the bottom of my heart: nobody is going to give a shit when you die. Nobody will care.
I am openly inviting you to hasten the process for the good of humanity.
nobody is going to give a shit when you die. Nobody will care.
So tolerant, so progressive.
Nobody likes you.
Correction, not many people like me on Lemmy. Not my problem.
You are the problem.
The problem is we need more diversity on lemmy. Lemmy is a commie echo chamber. We need people to get on lemmy from all kinds of political backgrounds.
Diversity is our strength! Don't forget that now.
Your pasty white sheep MRA conservative cucking mentality is not only not diverse - being a carbon copy collection - but also not welcome.
Anywhere.
So tolerant, so progressive.
Don't hate, embrace! Diversity is our strength!
That sort of idiocy is why you always fail at life.
How have I failed at life?
Lefties believe in diversity and being tolerant. So embracing more viewpoints should be more than welcomed. Are you a bigot? Do you have a prejudice towards anything "right wing"?
You need to chill out. Looks like you bump into someone on the internet who shared a simple take on a post and has a very different point of view from yours. If you want to argue with me cause my view is considered "unacceptable" to your world view, so be it. My life goes on regardless.
Progress these nuts.
So saving the planet is now communist? Did you ever learn what communism really means or did you learn it from social media?
So saving the planet is now communist?
Uhhhh, yeah! This greenie stuff is a cult, they want government over-reach to the extreme.
Did you ever learn what communism really means or did you learn it from social media?
History does not repeat, it rhymes.
Alright so nothing of substance was said in this response. Please go to college kids.
If I go to college, I will be funding the system and getting into debt. If the subversion of high education successfully captures my mind, I will end up as an NPC. I do not want to be an NPC.
Going to college as you suggested is awful advice. Your college comment actually proves my point.
If you prefer to live your life in ignorance and don’t want to learn about other perspectives, then there is no point discussing anything with you as you ignore empirical evidence. If facts scare you, then there’s no conversation to be had as it’ll be like I’m talking to a brick wall. Anyone that unironically uses the word “NPC” is a moron. Please do some self reflection, and have a good day.
No need for self reflection, I am red pilled.
A child with a temper tanty.
Yeah you do need to chill out.
You already are an NPC. An unthinking sheep, trapped by the delusion that you matter to anyone. You are a useless slab of meat without prospects.
You've already been brainwashed by the conservative grifters. There is nothing of value left inside of you, and sadly, that fact is what makes you proudest of yourself.
Let me grab a mirror, I got something to reflect back to you.
You already are an NPC. An unthinking sheep, trapped by the delusion that you matter to anyone. You are a useless slab of meat without prospects.
You’ve already been brainwashed by the
conservative griftersglobalists. There is nothing of value left inside of you, and sadly, that fact is what makes you proudest of yourself.Oh sweetie, see? You can't even come up with original insults, you have to use your sheep brain to copy paste what others say. Just pathetic.
I did not need to come up with a response since you just gave me one that was factual after a small edit.
You don't need to be here at all.
And yet you keep on responding to my comment.
So we should sit back and watch the world burn, eh?
The world will not burn regardless if you sit back or not.
If you dig your head in the sand maybe nobody can see you either.
Cool comment bro
I’m sorry, but I really don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here, and none of your other comments have made it any clearer. Can you please explain what you’re trying to say?
My comment gives others a red pilled point of view on what the CAAD is.
Oooooookay then.
My comment gives others a red pilled point of view on what the CAAD is.
Hahahaha absolute buffoonery.
I guess you popped many blue pills over your life.