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Facebook has a climate-denial problem
Blog ››› July 31, 2018 1:13 PM EDT ››› LISA HYMAS
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Melissa Joskow / Media Matters
Facebook, well-known as a breeding ground for misinformation, has a particular problem with disseminating false and misleading messages about climate change science. The platform spreads climate-denying videos and other posts, hosts climate-denying ads, and officially partners with climate-denying media outlets and organizations.
Climate-denier videos get millions of views on Facebook
A recent video promoting false arguments against climate change science got more than 5 million views on Facebook, The Guardian's Dana Nuccitelli reported last week.
The video -- posted in June by The Daily Signal, an arm of the right-wing Heritage Foundation -- is titled "Why Climate Change Is Fake News." It features Marc Morano, a longtime spokesperson and blogger for the climate-denial cause, who outlines three things that "the left gets wrong about climate change." Nuccitelli points out that all three are common and easily debunked myths.
Nuccitelli notes that Facebook's viewership numbers are likely inflated, but the video has still reached a lot of people:
As of this writing, the Daily Signal video has now been "viewed" 6.3 million times and shared 102,000 times.
Other denier videos get traction on Facebook as well. For example, one titled "GLOBAL WARMING IS THE BIGGEST FRAUD IN HISTORY," which features a rant by a climate-denying retired businessman, has gotten at least 2 million views by Facebook's count.
Facebook is partnering with climate-denying organizations
In an interview with Recode published on July 18, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook shouldn't remove content just because it's wrong. Using the example of Holocaust denial, he said it's “deeply offensive,” but “I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong.”
Zuckerberg tried to clarify his views two days later, writing, "Our goal with fake news is not to prevent anyone from saying something untrue — but to stop fake news and misinformation spreading across our services. If something is spreading and is rated false by fact checkers, it would lose the vast majority of its distribution in News Feed."
Joe Romm at ThinkProgress pointed out that Zuckerberg's approach is a major problem when it comes to climate denial, a particularly pernicious form of disinformation.
One of Facebook's official fact-checking partners, the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, has at times been dismissive of climate science and the need for climate action. A piece from July 2017, headlined "Dadaist Science," cast doubt on research that found a scientific consensus around the human causes of climate change. A piece from June 2017 criticized arguments being made on behalf of the Paris climate agreement. A long feature in the magazine from 2014 lauded climate-denying scientist Richard Lindzen.
As Romm put it, "How can Facebook stop climate misinformation when its ‘fact-checkers’ are deniers?"
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Meanwhile, Facebook is partnering with the Heritage Foundation to determine whether the platform displays liberal bias -- a persistent but blatantly false claim made by conservatives. Heritage gets funding from the Kochs and other fossil fuel interests, and it has a long history of spreading climate denial. It brought us the "Why Climate Change Is Fake News" video mentioned above.
And the Facebook Watch initiative, in which Facebook partners with media companies to produce original videos, has teamed up with Fox News, despite the network's long history of climate denial. Last month, when Facebook Watch debuted a slate of news shows from eight news publishers, Fox got more than twice as many slots per week as any other outlet.
Facebook hosts climate-denying ads
Late last year, a climate-denier blogger tried to buy ads linking to his site on five social-media platforms and found that Facebook was the only one that ran them with no pushback or questions asked.
Leo Goldstein writes a blog at DefyCCC.com that focuses on what he calls "climate realism." The CCC in the URL stands for "cult of climate change." He also writes periodically for WattsUpWithThat, a more well-known climate-denial blog. He claims that climate change is a "pseudo-scientific fraud" and that "real scientists are against climate alarmism."
Goldstein attempted to buy ads linking to his DefyCCC site. "In November and December 2017, I experimented with distributing the climate realism message using advertising options on Google and some other platforms," Goldstein wrote in a December 31 post on WattsUpWithThat. In a follow-up post the next day, Goldstein described the outcome of his experiment. The short version: Twitter refused to run his ads. Google ran some of his ads for a period of time. Facebook ran his ads with no pushback.
"Facebook has been acting squeaky clean," Goldstein wrote. "None of my messages have been banned for content." Facebook is the only platform that gave him no problems,
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NEW: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “We’ve had at least nine Freedom of Information Act lawsuits about the IRS scandal, and much of what you know about the IRS scandal is thanks to Judicial Watch... There was also a civil lawsuit against the IRS, and top IRS officials Lois Lerner & Holly Paz were deposed and questioned under oath. But we don’t know what they said because those depositions have been sealed. So we’ve been asking the court for these records to be unsealed… there is a public’s right to know about government misconduct and the hijacking of the IRS by the Obama gang to target political opponents. And it was bipartisan in part – Judicial Watch recently uncovered documents showing that a McCain staffer suggested that Lois Lerner audit all of these 501(c)(4) groups in a way that would be financially ruinous.”
Watch the full Weekly Update here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SpC064kA8M
NEW: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “The Clinton campaign used a law firm as a cut-out to hire Fusion GPS who then hired Christopher Steele – who was a former spy for the United Kingdom. Now, Steele was an anti-Trumper and he created the Dossier. Steele was the alleged author of the Dossier and he put a lot of it together. But it’s also believed that there were others involved in the creation of the Dossier, like Sidney Blumenthal, who shouldn’t have been anywhere near the Justice Department and FBI. But Christopher Steele used sources from abroad, including Russian intelligence sources, to basically launder dirt about Donald Trump into the Obama-run Justice Department.”
Watch the full Weekly Update here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SpC064kA8M
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ICYMI: Judicial Watch announced that the FBI turned over 70 pages of heavily redacted records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy – hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds – who authored the infamous Dossier targeting President Trump during last year’s presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents also show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unknown reasons in February 2016.
The documents were turned over in response to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records of communications and payments between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his private firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “These new docs show the shady cash-based relationship the Obama FBI had with Clinton operative Christopher Steele. The anti-Trump Russia ‘investigation’ had Christopher Steele at its center and his misconduct was no impediment to using information from his Russia intelligence collaborators to spy on the Trump team. The corruption and abuse is astonishing.”
ICYMI: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the release of 412 pages of documents about FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrants targeting Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser:
"These documents are heavily redacted but seem to confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the 'intelligence' used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team. Given this corruption, President Trump should intervene and declassify the heavily redacted material.
The warrants are controversial because the FISA Court was never told that the key information justifying the requests came from a “Dossier” that was created by Fusion GPS, a paid agent of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC). The initial Carter Page warrant was granted just weeks before the 2016 election. This new FISA document release supports criticisms by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee who released a memo that criticized the FISA targeting. The memo details how the “minimally corroborated” Clinton-DNC Dossier was an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants to spy on Carter Page.
Learn more here: http://jwatch.us/PSMn4E
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