Posted on 02/19/2021 5:55:43 PM PST by upchuck
After debunking misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election results, Facebook will now be the arbiter of truth about climate change. The social network will begin flagging and debunking climate change myths.
Facebook released a statement Thursday stating that the social media platform will "add informational labels to some posts on climate," and direct users to the Facebook Climate Science Information Center, a resource that provides "science-based news, approachable information and actionable resources from the world's leading climate change organizations."
Previously, Facebook rolled out its Voting Information Center in August and the Coronavirus Information Center in March to combat news the company deemed to be misinformation.
"To debunk the myths with current and specific facts, we've brought in climate communication experts from the George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the University of Cambridge," Facebook said.
"The spread of damaging falsehoods endangers the level of international cooperation required to prevent catastrophic global warming," said Sander van der Linden of the University of Cambridge. "Facebook is in a unique position to counter the circulation of online misinformation, and the new climate 'mythbusting' section is an important step toward debunking dangerous falsehoods."
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Post the articles with wild predictions like tge false hockeystick and claims that kids growing up in 2000 in England would never see snow in their lives.
Good. They can start with Kerry and his 9 years left belief!
Post Al Gore’s photoshopped disaster globe photo
“misinformation about climate change”
That would be telling!
Why do people still use it?
So what? The Founders didn’t need Facebook to defeat the British Tyrants.
Go 1776 and nail a broadsheet to a townsquare tree.
I’m thankful FB’s fact checkers are always steering me to the truth and the light. They’re looking out for me...
Its not their job.
No one ever signed up for facebook to censor stuff for them.
They are not arbiters of truth.
And its not their job to determine it either,they have no expertise to do so.
Further they have shown they are biased in their censoring of information.
Fixed it.
Oh, does that mean he’s going to debunk the idea that there’s a “climate crisis”?
No, didn’t think so.
Buncha Jack-booted fascists.
Who’s going to debunk the Snowflake “climate change myth debunkers”? These college boys are masturbation experts posing as scientists.
Or a Fecesbook mod...
Unity! Equality! Fraternity! Just not Liberty.
Only idiot libs will populate this Fakebook echo chamber by 2025.
Oh, wait, the Maldives are doing just fine (maybe the residents haven't read the climate models.)
For your reading pleasure (re Grand Solar Minimum and why you need to bundle up)...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2020.1796243
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