Study: Bots Are Fueling Online Climate Science Denialism – Rolling Stone
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Article Synopsis – A new study from Brown University has found that 25% of tweets about the climate crisis and nearly 40% of tweets about fake climate science are from bots. The tweets are intended to give the impression that there is more of a diversity of opinion on climate science than their actually is. “Researchers were not able to ascertain the source of the computer-generated tweets.” To read the actual article click here.