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The Biden administration has urged Big Tech companies to enforce their “climate misinformation policies” not only to anyone who denies climate change, but also to everyone who questions their “official narratives” on climate solutions. Gina McCarthy, President Joe Biden’s National Climate Advisor, acknowledged in an interview with Axion for “The Infodemic Age” that their focus has shifted from […]

Especially damaging or dangerous because it does not rely on facts or statistics. it relies on emotion and outrage. i wonder whether or not it is harder to moderate different types of content because we have got texts. you can read that quickly if you are reading an online article. is it harder to moderate online content when it is a video, for example? it is definitely harder to monitor video content. you just don't have the technology yet that is 100% accurate and that really makes tiktok especially susceptible to misinformation as well, just because a large number of users assuring videos o...

Promise to remove and prioritise climate misinformation and so far it is very hard for the public to know if it actually has. how much of — know if it actually has. how much of a _ know if it actually has. how much of a problem - know if it actually has. how much of a problem are - know if it actually has. how much of a problem are the| much of a problem are the algorithms themselves, the power of the platform, in terms of the speed of which information gets out there? tiktok has a design in its ranking algorithm to prioritise content that people will engage when all people will spend time w...

Wounding. the bbc has found that they are failing to remove videos to deny the existence of man—made climate change even when their using their own reporting tools. the discovery comes months after the platform said it would ban false information about global warming. i've been talking to a tiktok creator and viral campaign and asked her how worried she was about the amount of misinformation there is on the platform. it’s amount of misinformation there is on the platform-— the platform. it's extremely wor in: the platform. it's extremely worrying and _ the platform. it's extremely worryi...

It also said it's working with fact checkers and that people searching for content about climate change on tiktok are being shown a link to authoritative information. but why is any of this important? we know that there is a very rapidly closing window for us to deal with the problem of climate change, and what it requires is really good faith, public debate. that doesn't mean people can't have concerns or grievances or disagreements, but ultimately we need to be sharing the same reality. and at the moment, the pollution of the information landscape is making that impossible. that report by ma...