Facebook is once again in the news for spreading false information as per a recent report. Global Witness is a London based NGO, they reported in a recent study that Facebook’s algorithm recommended content that denied the existence of man-made climate warming and attacked measures aimed at mitigating the climate crisis.  The CCDH published a report in November finding that 10 publishers, labeled “The Toxic Ten,” were responsible for up to 69% of all interactions with climate denial content on Facebook. A report published by NPR reported that Researchers used the social analytics tool NewsWhip to assess 184 articles containing … Continue reading Facebook’s Algorithm Boosts Climate Disinformation – A Study By Global Witness