by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing on Junkscience.com
[In a January 6, 2022] Washington Post article (Web | PDF)…it turns out, ‘climate misinformation’ is meant to mean Steve Milloy’s Twitter and Facebook accounts.
But Steve Milloy, a climate change skeptic who served on Trump’s transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency, currently has a verified Twitter account with more than 37,000 followers, from which he has shared false or unproven information about global warming and its effects.
On Tuesday, for example, Milloy tweeted that the record-breaking wildfire in Colorado last week was caused by “natural” drought. Scientists have said that the fire was intensified by climate change, which caused unnaturally warm and dry conditions for this time of year.
Cook of Monash University said he views Milloy as a “clear source of misinformation” who should not be “whitelisted” by the platform.
Reached by phone yesterday, Milloy said he thinks that Twitter and other social media companies have no business fact-checking users’ posts about climate change.
“I am totally opposed to Big Tech censoring people from discussing issues,” Milloy told The Climate 202. “If people can show I’m wrong, they should shame me off Twitter.”
