Activists use AI to identify climate 'deniers' and pressure social media companies to censor them

Activists Use AI to Identify Climate 'Deniers' and Pressure Social Media Companies to Censor Them - The Virginia Star

Climate activism has had a rough year. Voters elected a president who had called climate change a “hoax.”

Activists use AI to identify climate 'deniers' and pressure social media companies to censor them

"Hot Air" created a database of online content the researchers call climate "misinformation." They are asking social media companies to moderate the content. Critics say they're disguising a campaign for censorship against climate skeptics as a concern for the spread of false information.

Climate Crisis Deniers Explain Why They Like U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright

In mid-February, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright described the global effort to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions in dark and conspiratorial terms. “Net zero 2050 is a sinister goal,” he told the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), an international gathering of conservatives convened by Canadian podcaster, author, and anti-climate powerbroker Jordan Peterson. “It’s certainly been a powerful tool used to grow government power [and], t…

We need to ask who is behind growing scepticism about climate action

Ed Miliband has come out fighting. In a hard-hitting Observer article, he says opponents of climate action will “make up any old nonsense and lies to pursue their ideological agenda, the latest example being their attempt to use the crisis facing the steel industry for their deeply damaging agenda”. He is right. A UK industrial…