Facebook against academic disclosure linked to climate change

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Facebook, like YouTube, helps to misinform about climate change the scientific community has warned for several months, while explaining how Mark Zuckerberg's company contributes to denialism through restrictions on scientifically based publications and a system verification of very limited information reported La Marea. To denounce this arbitrary censorship by Facebook of the dissemination of science, several personalities from the academic and university fields joined in Spain in a statement, signed by professionals, activists against climate change and institutions among them, the Catalan Association for Scientific Communication (ACCC), Ecologists in Action and the Resilience Institute.

The signatories the source points out cited the case of the British scientific popularizer Gaia Vince, whose website Facebook had censored and that of the blocking of the links on this platform of the blog You don't believe it, by Ferran Puig Vilar, website that Facebook classified as a publication with 'untrue information', despite the thesis supported by a scientific basis.

From his blog, Puig Vilar publishes today that only after a press conference held yesterday in Barcelona, ​​designed to denounce censorship, but above all to publicize the Declaration on degrowth, did he hear that the links to you did not believe, they can be included normally in that social network. She also learned that Gaia Vince's website had been normalized by the censors.

However, he considered that it is necessary to continue to warn about the way in which the media treat the environmental crisis they soften the severity of the problems that threaten us, there is an absence of public narratives that affirm it and do not show the solid scientific foundation of the same.

He said, the ecological crisis, the reduction of biodiversity and the accelerated extinction of species are still often treated, with very few exceptions with an ecological air without sufficiently paying attention to the decisive importance for life support systems of the entire life, and of course ours. Different authorized voices that point to the relationship between the pandemic and the ecological crisis are now having a certain echo in the mainstream but these media are still far from alerting with the necessary depth and insistence.

According to the La Marea report, Senator Elisabeth Warren and other senators from the United States Congress wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to stop the deliberate spread of climate disinformation on the company's social media platforms with the aim of ending misinformation about climate change on Facebook. They also stressed that the climate crisis is too important to allow blatant lies to be disseminated without consequences on social networks.