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I'm not surprised. There's so much money pushing climate alarmism these days, so much potential geopolitical power to be gained by pushing the climate agenda. W
by aldoushuxley001 7y ago
I'm not surprised. There's so much money pushing climate alarmism these days, so much potential geopolitical power to be gained by pushing the climate agenda. Would've been more surprising if more of these tweets were real.
- Quenty 7y agoThe article states the bots were on the side of denialism.
- klyrs 7y ago> On an average day during the period studied, 25% of all tweets about the climate crisis came from bots. This proportion was higher in certain topics – bots were responsible for 38% of tweets about “fake science” and 28% of all tweets about the petroleum giant Exxon. > Conversely, tweets that could be categorized as online activism to support action on the climate crisis featured very few bots, at about 5% prevalence. The findings “suggest that bots are not just prevalent, but disproportionately so in topics that were supportive of Trump’s announcement or skeptical of climate science and action”, the analysis states.
- dragonspeedrace 7y agofrom the article: > substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages
- octonion 7y agoArguing that there's more money in doing real climate science vs fossil fuels is insanity.
- imtringued 7y agoThere isn't anything pushing it. The situation is more like a bridge that is about to collapse and everyone is asking themselves: What is the smallest action that we can take to fix the problem? The incentives are toward inaction.