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Posted on: 2023-02-22

Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter

A study of accounts that have repeatedly published popular tweets linking to known misinformation shows that their collective popularity has significantly grown (on average, +42% interactions per tweet) since Elon Musk took effective control of the platform on 27 October 2022. These results appear to run afoul of Twitter’s commitments as a signatory of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation.
Posted on: 2022-04-15

Following the misinformation URL trail to identify key spreaders: A case study on Twitter

Introduction As social media platforms try to tackle the spread of misinformation, their first challenge is the reliable identification of…

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Posted on: 2025-09-15
Major wine regions could disappear from global warming, Europe to be hit especially hard

Wine grapes can only be grown in specific conditions – climate change is affecting which regions are suitable, and some current regions will likely be lost.
- Climate
Posted on: 2025-06-27
Cutting emissions today limits future climate impacts, but certain changes are ‘locked in’ due to past CO2 emissions

Sea levels will rise this century and remain elevated for thousands of years due to our past emissions. Ice sheets, glaciers, and ocean temperatures will also face irreversible changes.
- Climate
Posted on: 2025-05-28
Human-driven climate change largely responsible for last 50 years of worsening fire weather in Western North America, new study shows

Fire weather has been worsened by human-driven climate change in Western North America for 50 years, new study finds. Recent paper suggests that human-driven climate change contributed 81-188% to the observed increase in fire weather in that region.