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YouTube earns millions a year from channels that promote climate denial content

• mitthrowaway2 3y ago
  > The channels promoted content that undermines the scientific consensus on climate change that human behaviour contributes to long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns, the report said. I'm about as hardcore an environmentalist as they come, but I don't actually have a problem with this. Strong attempts to enforce a one-sided dialogue will only result in backlash and a sense of persecution of climate denialists, which will strengthen their beliefs. This is exactly what happened during COVID. Platforms like Youtube should promote a free exchange of ideas, even wrong ones like climate denialism.