A report published on Thursday April 21 by Avaaz and the US branches of Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace concludes that social networks are not doing enough to combat climate misinformation. The evaluation of Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tiktok and Youtube was based on twenty-seven criteria to identify, for example, whether the platforms worked with experts in the field. to identify false information about the climate, if they had a clear policy in place to reduce such content, or if they suspended accounts that regularly spread it.
Not only have they failed to adopt sufficiently ambitious policies to tackle the problem, but they also demonstrate a cruel lack of transparency and “ conceal “We’re delighted to be able to share their data on the scale of the phenomenon. Facebook, Tiktok and Twitter received the lowest scores. Out of a total of 27 points, they received only 9, 7 and 5 points, compared with 14 for Youtube and Pinterest.
