Although anti-misinformation groups such as Climate Action Against Disinformation have repeatedly advocated for big tech to make investments in their content moderation, the trend in the past year has often been the opposite. Musk has hollowed out Twitter’s moderation capabilities while reversing policies to allow for the targeting of transgender people as well as the spread of anti-vaccine falsehoods. YouTube also reversed its policy to allow for election denialism, while Instagram allowed anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr back onto its platform.
Climate Action Against Desinformation: X(Twitter) slechtste sociale netwerk op gebied van klimaatdesinformatie
Nepinfo over het klimaat op X(Twitter)
X, voorheen bekend als Twitter, is door een rapport van Climate Action Against Desinformation (CAAD) als slechtste sociale medianetwerk beoordeeld op het gebied van klimaatdesinformatie. Het netwerk voldoet slechts aan één van de ruim twintig criteria over desinformatie. The Guardian ligt toe september 2023:
A report ranking climate change misinformation gave Twitter (recently rebranded as X) only a single point out of a 21-point scorecard when assessing policies aimed at reducing inaccurate information – the worst out of five major tech platforms.
The Climate of Misinformation report by Climate Action Against Disinformation looked at Meta, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter for their content moderation policies and efforts to mitigate inaccurate information such as climate denialism. The group, which is made up of dozens of international climate and anti-disinformation organizations including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, released the report to draw attention towards climate misinformation on major platforms and makes the claim that big tech has become a “complicit actor” in accelerating the spread of climate denial.
Sinds de overname door Elon Musk zijn de contentmoderatiesystemen van het platform verminderd, wat heeft geleid tot een toename van klimaatsceptische berichten. Erika Seiber, woordvoerder van Friends of the Earth (een lid van CAAD), stelt dat sociale mediaplatformen medeplichtig zijn aan het verspreiden van misinformatie.
Klimatoloog Fettweis benadrukt dat het de verantwoordelijkheid is van sociale mediaplatforms om desinformatie te beperken en klimaatsceptische berichten tegen te gaan.
Tot slot The Guardian:
