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Big Oil funds climate misinformation blitz

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Summary
Nutrition label

58% Informative

Social media companies have failed to protect the public from super-spreaders’ of false climate narratives.

A new report from the Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition (CAAD) found that eight fossil fuel advertisers paid Meta at least $17.6 million for over 700 million impressions in the past year .

The spread of false content online has hampered the public response to multiple extreme weather events in 2024 .

VR Score

57

Informative language

55

Neutral language

32

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

85

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

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