Heat wave keeps Midwest and South in its sticky gripĬHICAGO (AP) - People flocked to pools, beaches and cooling centers in a swath of the Midwest and South spanning. NEW YORK (AP) - Americans trimmed their spending unexpectedly in May compared with a month before, underscoring. Retail sales in May slip 0.3% amid surging inflation that led to the deaths of more than 40 million chickens and. National News Bird flu outbreak waning but threat of virus lingers Today's breaking news and more in your inbox In an emailed statement, YouTube acknowledged the challenge of “drawing the lines between misinformation, political speech, legitimate debate, and opinion.” Newsletter In a letter to Google, the committee urged the tech giant to do more to combat falsehoods on its platforms.
House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. YouTube, owned by Google, was singled out as a leading source for climate misinformation by the U.S. Its Climate Science Information Center, created last year, is now available in 16 countries and nine languages, and has a new section dedicated to dispelling climate change myths. election, critics say they’ve been less aggressive when it comes to climate information.Ī spokesman for Facebook said the platform is doing more than ever to connect users with accurate information about climate change. While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have all removed content spreading misinformation about COVID-19 or the recent U.S. Such misinformation persists online, despite stated attempts by online platforms to stamp it out. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, have speculated it might be the work of space lasers. Recent California wildfires? While experts say dry and hot conditions are to blame, some, including U.S. Following the Texas storm, for instance, some claimed the snow was fake and wouldn’t burn, or that it was the result of weather control technology used by Biden. Those who still dispute a connection to a changing climate are grasping for increasingly far-fetched explanations. “A lot of the misinformation is more subtle.” “We still see claims that global warming doesn’t exist, but we also see misinformation about specific areas - such as the wind turbines in Texas,” said Emmanuel Vincent, director of Science Feedback, a global network of scientists based in France who work to debunk inaccurate claims about climate change. But it also creates new opportunities for those who would spread bogus claims. In some ways, that’s a positive, as it demonstrates increased public understanding of the problem. With about 7 in 10 Americans saying they believe climate change is happening, misinformation has now shifted from denialism to focus on its real world impacts. According to a 2019 poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, nearly 75% of Americans said their opinions about climate change have been influenced by extreme weather in the previous five years. Surveys also show that extreme weather is changing people’s thinking about climate change. Overall, online mentions of natural disasters and their relationship to climate change also increased by 27%, Zignal found. Media intelligence firm Zignal Labs analyzed millions of social media posts, news stories and other online content and found that overall, conversations about climate change in the past 12 months peaked during high-profile natural disasters, including the Texas storm and the California wildfires. Now it’s softer forms of denial, and efforts to diminish the impacts of climate change.”
People see it with their own two eyes,” said Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann. “It just isn’t credible to deny climate change or the impacts it’s having. To climate scientists and misinformation researchers, claims like these mark an important shift: Instead of focusing on denialism, climate misinformation is getting local, focused on extreme weather events tied to a changing climate - such the Texas storm or recent wildfires that ravaged California and Australia. In fact, an emergency request granted by the Biden administration gave the state authority to exceed federal environmental limits in order to provide enough power to Texans.
Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, tweeted to her 100,000 followers that Biden’s energy policies were “leaving millions of Texans freezing to death.”Īll those claims were false. The next day, the conspiracy theory website Infowars published a similarly untrue story that was shared 70,000 times on Facebook and Twitter.
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