Well, this is troubling. ¼ of all climate crisis tweets appear to be generated by bots - and 95% of them take a denialism position.
This, of course, gives real denialists an outsize sense of their own support - and makes conversion of people to the “cause” more likely.
This post by Euan Semple, which is an expression of moral relativism (or adjacet to it, at least), feels both elementally true to me - but also a dangerous way to think about one of the things he mentions: Facebook.
It feels, at some level, that it lets the people in charge off the hook.
Thoughts?
Brexit consequences: Google moving UK data to the US - where data protections are weaker.
Polarisation wears an unexpected face in today’s Engaged Reading Digest.
Kinda struggling to believe that Facebook can’t afford enough developers to do an iPad app.
This is a fascinating, and troubling, German investigation into the way corporations are funnelling funds into climate change deniers: The Heartland Lobby
Their latest approach? A young influencer, that they are positioning as the anti-Greta.
