The Breitbart News reported Friday that Facebook said it plans to begin adding information tags to posts about climate change to easily direct people to Facebook’s climate change information center and will rely on professionals from George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and Cambridge University to fact-check climate change posts. Climate Change Communication) and Cambridge University professionals to fact-check climate change posts.
NBC News reports that Facebook has announced this week that it will begin debunking common myths about climate change on the platform, continuing to define what is and is not “misinformation. But previously, Facebook had claimed it would not do so.
Facebook will have a section within the Climate Change Information Center that will feature facts that debunk misinformation related to climate change. Some of those facts will include data on the decline of polar bear populations due to global warming, and the impact of carbon dioxide on plant Life. The data and information will, of course, come from professionals at George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and Cambridge University.
As part of its strategy to combat misinformation, Facebook has recently launched various information centers. Facebook’s orientation toward climate change speech on its platform is a rapid change, considering that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was defending unfettered speech last May and said he did not believe “Facebook or Internet platforms in general should be the arbiter of truth.
Facebook launched a climate change information center in September last year, and shortly afterwards, a report was removed from Facebook because it was false that the Oregon wildfires were started by Antifa members.
It is reported that such an information center will also be extended to users in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Spain, South Africa and Taiwan. This feature is currently available in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
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