1. Facebook says its committed to combating climate change and has created a new Climate Science Information Center page but the page's section on what steps can be taken to reduce carbon emissions is straight out of the fossil fuel industry playbook
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2. Facebook's page emphasizes individual actions (like turning off lights) while ignoring systemic issues like polluting companies, policy obstruction, and unchecked climate denial
Facebook says it consulted experts to create the page but won't say who
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3. The biggest problem with Facebook's effort is that it does nothing to stop the rapid spread of climate disinformation on its platform.
One source of viral climate disinformation is the Daily Caller, WHICH IS AN OFFICIAL FACEBOOK FACT-CHECKING PARTNER
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4. A Daily Caller article that has been shared 20K times falsely states that the West Coast wildfires have nothing to do with climate change.
Its source is an "expert" from the Heartland Institute, the premiere source of climate disinformation
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5. The Climate Science Information Page has a lot of problems but unless something is done to limit the massive spread of climate disinformation on Facebook it really doesn't matter.
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