Controversial social media app TikTok announced it would begin removing 'climate change misinformation' from its platform. The company says it will ban 'content denying the existence of climate change or the factors that contribute to it.'
President Biden and lawmakers from both political parties in the U.S. have moved to ban TikTok from government devices, and many are seeking to outlaw the platform on American phones because, they say, the app’s data collection practices can be used by the Chinese Communist Party., TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew effectively told lawmakers that the notion his app was a Chinese tool for spying on Americans was itself misinformation.
“Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country,” Chew wrote inTikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23. released last month found that a majority of Americans — 54% — said they believe TikTok is a national security threat to the United States, while 23% said it is not, and another 23% were unsure. And 55% of Americans said TikTok should be banned, while 25% said it shouldn’t.
For years, there has been a scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is what is causing global temperatures to rise in recent decades. In 2021, for instance, concluded that human beings were the main driver of climate change. That reality has been a part of the social media landscape for younger Americans.
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