Researchers and campaigners say that despite measures announced by social platforms, climate misinformation is thriving, undermining belief in climate change and the action needed to tackle it. — Photo by Souvik Banerjee on Unsplash
PARIS: The climate change-denial tag "ClimateScam" has become a top search term on Twitter, prompting monitors to warn Monday of a rise in misinformation following Elon Musk's takeover of the platform.
Typing "climate" in Twitter's generic search bar returned "ClimateScam" as the top suggested result, followed by "ClimateAction" and "ClimateEmergency".
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