Latest analysis reveals Facebook has failed to prevent misinformation about climate change

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Analysis from a non-profit organization, Influencemap alleges Facebook failed to prevent misinformation about climate change until the first six months of 2020. Influencmap said 51 advertisements related to distrust of climate change had been posted on Facebook and read by millions of people.

Influencemap retrieves data from advertisements posted on Facebook through nine advertisers from the US with a total of 42 thousand US dollars. The money was used for the cost of 51 anti-climate change advertisements from January to June 2020.

The advert attacks the credibility of the research agency and denies there is no scientific consensus on global warming. Often the advertisements call the increase in global temperatures a natural change and that human use of fossil fuels does not contribute to global warming.

“Climate change worsens the weather today? Think again” reads one of the advertisements Facebook the.

In fact climate change alone has contributed to up to 93 percent of extreme heat events in the past decade, as have 61 percent of droughts and 54 percent of floods and storms.

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