An analysis of Twitter messages - carried out for AFP by two computational social scientists at City, University of London - counted 1.1 million tweets or retweets using strong climate-sceptic terms in 2022.
ADI noted that July saw US President Joe Biden secure support for a major climate spending bill - subject of numerous"climate scam" tweets - plus a heatwave in the US and Europe.
But prolific climate change contrarians, such as blogger Tony Heller and former coal executive Steve Milloy, have hailed him in their tweets.Growing evidence of climate change leading to extreme weather, but experts say it’s not too lateAn analysis by Advance Democracy seen by AFP found the number of Twitter posts"using climate change denialism terms" more than tripled from 2021 to 2022, reaching over 900,000.
YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez told AFP that in response to the claim, certain climate-denial ads had been taken down.On Facebook, meanwhile, ADI found the number of such posts decreased compared to 2021, in line with overall climate change claims.The CAAD report said that climate content regularly features alongside other misleading claims on"electoral fraud, vaccinations, the COVID-19 pandemic, migration, and child trafficking rings run by so-called 'elites'.
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