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Dec 9, 2021, 9 tweets

Laugh or cry?
New AI tool for climate misinformation

“Ultimately, our goal is the Holy Grail of fact-checking, which is being able to detect and debunk misinformation in real time. Ideally, I would have social media platforms using it to detect misinformation in real time.”

What counts as "climate misinformation"?
Let's have a look

"Denialist keywords include references to
extremes in the past, extremes not
increasing or extremes not linked to
climate change."

More denialist claims

Includes "damages/deaths from extreme weather aren’t increasing"
Includes "extreme weather linked to non-climate change phenomena (like ENSO)"

More denialist claims

Includes "Future generations will be richer and better able to adapt"

More denialist claims

"Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) is unproven/expensive"

More denialist claims

"Nuclear power is safe/good for society/economy/environment"

More denialist claims

Criticism of Skeptical Science 🤣

If there was ever any doubt that these guys want to control public debate & silence those with differing views that's gone

Wash Post: washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/1…

Nature Reports: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Fun times!

PS. These are the folks behind the new AI tool for detecting the denialists among us

forbes.com/sites/rogerpie…

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