Twitter bot climate misinformation

Twitter bot climate misinformation

A study found that 9% of accounts sending tweets about climate change were actually bots. What’s more the study found that by volume these bots sent 25% of all tweets about climate change. The worst thing is that most of these tweets were misinformation – which got more engagement, became stickier and were then further promoted by the social network. We discuss this issue more on the podcast 🎙🎙