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| Facebook reveals myths about climate change |
Facebook has started using banners to rate people's contributions to climate change and direct people to climate change information pages.
The move marks the company's latest effort to dispel the myth and is in response to the climate crisis. Previously, lawmakers and academics were critical of and feared that the social media giant could enable fake news to spread on their platform.
Currently, these characters only appear on Facebook posts in the UK. In its announcement on Thursday, the company said: Facebook plans to roll out elsewhere soon.
In September, Facebook launched its Climate Science Information Center for the first time in the USA, Germany, Great Britain and France.
Facebook is now expanding its climate science information centers to users in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Spain, Africa, South and Taiwan.
Facebook is trying to unravel popular myths about climate change, including the fact that polar bears have decreased in numbers due to global warming and too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is damaging plant life on Earth.
The company's strategy in responding to climate news is similar to its strategy for coronavirus, as Facebook began putting coronavirus screening information on top of its newsletter in March last year.
In the past year, Facebook has come under intense pressure to better review posts about climate change and prevent the spread of misleading content.
The new names appear to be a way to respond to Facebook calls to take further action, although the legislature's initial concerns about Facebook over the past year have not been addressed.
The whole story began in August 2019 after Facebook rescinded a fact checker's decision and classified the opinion fragments as false opinions because they contained inaccurate information and selective data on climate change.
As a result, the report states that the platform has created a loophole that protects the expression of opinion from fact-checking and has always been part of its policy.
The senators said in a statement last year: The future of our planet is under threat. No company has to be too big, too powerful, or too vague to take responsibility for its role in the climate crisis.
Lawmakers have asked Facebook to answer questions about its fact-checking policy, and in a Facebook post last year, the company claimed that clear opinions are generally not subject to fact-checking on the platform.
Facebook has not specified how these posts should include the new address, and a Facebook spokesperson said: We are still learning from other headlines that have been used in the past.