A quarter of all tweets about the climate crisis are written by bots, and the majority of computer-generated posts on the issue are geared to deny climate science.
The troubling finding comes by way of a yet-to-be-published study from Brown University that was obtained by The Guardian. “These findings suggest a substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages about climate change, including support for Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement,” the study reads.
Researchers examined 6.5 million tweets posted in the period surrounding President Trump’s 2017 announcement that...
The troubling finding comes by way of a yet-to-be-published study from Brown University that was obtained by The Guardian. “These findings suggest a substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages about climate change, including support for Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement,” the study reads.
Researchers examined 6.5 million tweets posted in the period surrounding President Trump’s 2017 announcement that...
- 2/21/2020
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
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