{"id":11617,"date":"2023-09-21T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/twitter-ranks-worst-in-climate-change-misinformation-report\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:37:15","slug":"twitter-ranks-worst-in-climate-change-misinformation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/twitter-ranks-worst-in-climate-change-misinformation-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate coalition cites Twitter\u2019s lack of clear policies to stop incorrect information and confusion from Musk takeover<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 the worst out of five major tech platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/caad.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Climate-of-Misinformation.pdf\">Climate of Misinformation report<\/a> 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 \u201ccomplicit actor\u201d in accelerating the spread of climate denial.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/20\/twitter-x-musk-climate-misinformation-social-platforms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fd3a9e7c571bfbc819ee23a5abc9369e3228e8a1\/0_127_7553_4534\/master\/7553.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bbe5e2466b3341b0306661c3d5c7a28a\" title=\"Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report\" \/>Climate coalition cites Twitter\u2019s lack of clear policies to stop incorrect information and confusion from Musk takeover<br \/>\nA 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 \u2013 the worst out of five major tech platforms.<br \/>\nThe 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 \u201ccomplicit actor\u201d in accelerating the spread of climate denial. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate coalition cites Twitter\u2019s lack of clear policies to stop incorrect information and confusion from Musk takeover 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 \u2013 the worst out of five major tech platforms. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/twitter-ranks-worst-in-climate-change-misinformation-report\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}