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The spread of false narratives around three recent extreme weather events in Latin America shows how climate change misinformation in Spanish and Portuguese can undermine efforts to address and ...
Social media companies spend relatively little time monitoring non-English content, making U.S. Latinos especially vulnerable to foreign-sourced disinformation.
As local news outlets have declined, there has been an increase in partisan media outlets that "masquerade" as local news sources. [125] [126] The impact of partisanship and its amplification through the media is documented. For example, attitudes to climate legislation were bipartisan in the 1990s but became intensely polarized by 2010.
More news on extreme weather events has given rise to more Spanish-language disinformation and misinformation on climate change that Latinos see, researchers say.
Publishes anti-vaccine and climate change denial misinformation. [278] [276] The Daily Wire: dailywire.com Published multiple false claims that were debunked by Snopes. Per the Daily Beast, Mike Adams would repeatedly post to the site "to attack and mock... students, staff, and faculty" at University of North Carolina Wilmington. [279]
Examples of false balance in reporting on science issues include the topics of human-caused climate change versus natural climate variability, the health effects of tobacco, the alleged relation between thiomersal and autism, [6] alleged negative side effects of the HPV vaccine, [7] and evolution versus intelligent design. [8]
X earned last place in a new ranking of social media platforms and their actions against climate change misinformation. Researchers declared the platform, formerly known as Twitter, is “heading ...
English: Chart showing respective numbers of posts of climate misinformation on social media website Twitter or X Data source: Colarossi, Jessica; Ricciardi, Jackie. Tweets, Ads, and Lies: Researchers Are Fighting against Climate Misinformation. Boston University (23 May 2023). Archived from the original on 21 November 2024.