Climate misinformation on Facebook 'increasing substantially', study says

A new analysis reveals that an estimated 818,000 climate misinformation posts received 1.36m views everydayThe scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is "staggering" and "increasing quite substantially", a new analysis of hundreds of thousands of posts has found.A report released on Thursday by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent watchdog group, and environmental nonprofit Stop Funding Heat, analyzed a dataset of more than 195 Facebook pages and groups. Researchers found an estimated 818,000 posts downplaying or denying the climate crisis, which have received a combined 1.36m views every day. Continue reading...