{"id":3531,"date":"2021-11-02T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:47:36","slug":"super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Super polluters\u2019: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten US-based and Russian state media outlets responsible for 69% of content on Facebook, finds Center for Countering Digital Hate<\/p>\n<p>Misinformation about the climate crisis runs rampant on Facebook, a new study has found, and comes mostly from a handful of \u201csuper polluter\u201d publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Ten publishers are responsible for 69% of digital climate change denial content on Facebook, a new study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CCDHate\">Center for Countering Digital Hate<\/a> (CCDH) has found. The outlets, which the report labels the \u201ctoxic ten\u201d, include several conservative websites in the US, as well as Russian state media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breitbart<\/strong>, a far-right news site once run by former Trump strategist Steve Bannon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Western Journal<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>a<strong> <\/strong>Conservative news site <\/p>\n<p><strong>Newsmax<\/strong>, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/10\/dominion-sues-pro-trump-oan-newsmax-overstock-founder-over-election-conspiracies.html\">previously been sued<\/a> for promoting election fraud conspiracies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Townhall Media<\/strong>, founded by the Exxon-funded Heritage Foundation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Research Center<\/strong>, a \u201cthinktank\u201d that received funding from Exxon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Times<\/strong>, founded by self-proclaimed messiah Sun Myung Moon<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Federalist Papers<\/strong>, a site that has promoted Covid misinformation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daily Wire<\/strong>, a conservative news site that is of the most engaged-with publishers on Facebook<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian state media<\/strong>, pushing disinformation via <strong>RT.com<\/strong> and <strong>Sputnik News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patriot Post<\/strong>, a conservative site whose writers use pseudonyms<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/02\/super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/64830ca6240737bd13129a2947c8bea131734427\/0_192_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=da8f0e42289e8aad2160fa4341c7f44b\" title=\"\u2018Super polluters\u2019: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook\" \/>Ten US-based and Russian state media outlets responsible for 69% of content on Facebook, finds Center for Countering Digital Hate<br \/>\nMisinformation about the climate crisis runs rampant on Facebook, a new study has found, and comes mostly from a handful of \u201csuper polluter\u201d publishers.<br \/>\nTen publishers are responsible for 69% of digital climate change denial content on Facebook, a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has found. The outlets, which the report labels the \u201ctoxic ten\u201d, include several conservative websites in the US, as well as Russian state media.<br \/>\nBreitbart, a far-right news site once run by former Trump strategist Steve Bannon<br \/>\nWestern Journal, a Conservative news site<br \/>\nNewsmax, which has previously been sued for promoting election fraud conspiracies<br \/>\nTownhall Media, founded by the Exxon-funded Heritage Foundation<br \/>\nMedia Research Center, a \u201cthinktank\u201d that received funding from Exxon<br \/>\nWashington Times, founded by self-proclaimed messiah Sun Myung Moon<br \/>\nThe Federalist Papers, a site that has promoted Covid misinformation<br \/>\nDaily Wire, a conservative news site that is of the most engaged-with publishers on Facebook<br \/>\nRussian state media, pushing disinformation via RT.com and Sputnik News<br \/>\nPatriot Post, a conservative site whose writers use pseudonyms Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten US-based and Russian state media outlets responsible for 69% of content on Facebook, finds Center for Countering Digital Hate Misinformation about the climate crisis runs rampant on Facebook, a new study has found, and comes mostly from a handful of \u201csuper polluter\u201d publishers. Ten publishers are responsible for 69% of digital climate change denial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Super polluters\u2019: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3532,"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\/3531"}],"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=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}