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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 ...
More news on extreme weather events has given rise to more Spanish-language disinformation and misinformation on climate change that Latinos see, researchers say.
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.
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]
The research concluded fake news consumers do not exist in a filter bubble; many of them also consume real news from established news sources. The fake news audience is only 10 percent of the real news audience, and most fake news consumers spent a relatively similar amount of time on fake news compared with real news consumers—with the ...
Social media companies spend relatively little time monitoring non-English content, making U.S. Latinos especially vulnerable to foreign-sourced disinformation.
For example, climatologist Kevin E. Trenberth has published widely on the topic of climate variability and has exposed flaws in the publications of other scientists. [6] [7] [8] For past debates and controversies on scientific details see for example: History of climate change science#Discredited theories and reconciled apparent discrepancies ...
Many YouTubers undermining climate action no longer call global warming a hoax, but they are sowing doubt over the science, solutions and impacts of the crisis. What is ‘new denial?’