by Adam Vaughan, Environment Editor
The London Times
The number of tweets mentioning the term “climate scam” have surged following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, in what one senior UN official called an “alarming flood” of environmental misinformation.
Analysis for The Times has also revealed that 2022 was the worst year for content skeptical of climate change since the social media giant was founded. Musk announced his intent to buy the platform in April and acquired it for $44 billion in October, stressing the importance of free speech…
Only ten Twitter handle accounts for a quarter of the tweets shared widely.
“Some of these accounts are wide-known climate-change contrarians, most notably Steve Milloy, a former Trump official in the Environmental Protection Agency…,” said Falkenberg…
