Climate Disinformation At Cop27 Brought To You By Big Tech Opinion
The data points are everywhere: On Elon Musk’s new Twitter “hellscape” (his words, not ours), a basic search for “climate” returns “#climatescam” as one of the top results. Social media accounts that posted U.S. election-related conspiracies also shared climate conspiracies, with the highest engagement content found on Twitter, where Republican figures call climate change and green energy a failure, hoax, and scam. Furthermore, new network analysis shows that top-performing posts that discussed ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing are linked to an ongoing “anti-woke” campaign and have now fully merged with conservative networks that push everything from transphobia to “stop the steal” to anti-vaccine disinformation....