Here is who repeated an unsupported claim about “a complete cure for cancer in a year”, misleading millions on social media
Another purported cure-all for cancer A claim that the “first complete cure for cancer” had been discovered by an Israeli…
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Climate misinformation video reaches broad audience with help from Youtube recommendation algorithm
YouTube’s recommendation algorithm recently began promoting a video about climate change on dozens of popular Youtube channels; the video has been promoted to between 300,000 and 2,000,000 people according to AlgoTransparency.
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False claims of a coming ice age spread through ecosystem of unreliable news sites, blogs, and social media accounts
Similar claims that we would be heading towards an imminent “mini ice age” were also repeated without verification throughout a network of unreliable outlets for climate news including Sputnik, The Sun, Fox News, and numerous hyper-partisan blogs such as Zero Hedge, Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, Alien-Star…
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Breitbart repeats blogger’s unsupported claim that NOAA manipulates data to exaggerate warming
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NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.
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InaccurateFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott wrongly claims Australia has warmed far less than data show
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unadjusted data suggests that temperatures in Australia have only increased by 0.3 degrees over the past century, not the 1 degree usually claimed
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False claim that global warming is natural propagates in a climate misinformation echo-chamber
The diagram below shows that the articles mostly rely heavily on each other—like in an echo chamber—with very few outside sources included in the reporting. A first wave of “reporting” appeared in The Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart, which were then largely copied and pasted in a second wave of posts with larger audiences…
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How the blogosphere spread and amplified the Daily Mail’s unsupported allegations of climate data manipulation
Early last month, British tabloid the Daily Mail published an article accusing the former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
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UnsupportedDaily Mail inflates data handling disagreement between scientists; makes unsupported “manipulation” accusation
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world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data
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The Wall Street Journal fails to acknowledge that 2016 was the warmest year on record
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no one really knows if last year (2016) was a (global temperature) record
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal editorial, 2017-01-19
