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Big Tech enables climate disinformation, report finds
Big Tech platforms enable climate disinformation, amplifying climate denial and greenwashing fossil fuels, says CAAD report
“As this report shows, the fossil fuel industry and its political allies are wielding climate disinformation to maintain their profits and lock the world’s people into an increasingly dangerous future,” she said. In 2023 and 2024, posts on X, YouTube, and TikTok falsely claimed that wildfires in Greece, Canada, and the Amazon were intentionally started, using fringe theories about “Direct Energy Weapons” or elite plots to seize land. Some of the most active accounts include political commentator Peter Sweden and Reform UK MP Richard Tice, whose posts criticising renewables have garnered hundreds of thousands of views.
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