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Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse
- gravismkultra 2y agoIn the absence of "fact checkers", I ask my conspiracy theorist friends for input, since recently they have been more right than wrong.
- eucryphia 2y agoThat’s because it’s censored in the legacy media. Asking awkward questions in the office might lose you your job. Because some social media isn’t censored by executive government, people can hear all edges of the debate. If you still think global warming is an existential crisis, you still have agency, go subsistence farming.
- defrost 2y ago> That’s because it’s censored in the legacy media. Factually untrue. Sky and Fox News (both Murdoch outlets) actively promote climate disinfomation. Old fossils banging on in after dark talking head shows is the epitome of "legacy media" and they're mainlining the climate change is nonsense message.