Facebook failed to spot climate misinformation from some of its worst denialist offenders
Facebook may be failing to tag a large amount of climate misinformation posted on its site, a study released today indicates. Researchers from the Center for Counter Digital Hate184 exceptionally popular stories from what it identified to be the top ten publishers of climate change denial content in the world . It found that roughly half of the stories failed to trigger Facebook’s information labels designed to flag coverage on climate change.
Independent fact-checkers also flag climate change stories that are false, and Facebook adds a warning label and reduces distribution."When they rate this content as false, we add a warning label and reduce its distribution so fewer people see it.