Mann's 2021 book "The New Climate War" documented action by oil producers to sow climate denialism on social media. Many target tweets of mine for attack," he said. "I've seen a huge rise in trolls and bots. Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and a regular target for abuse by deniers of climate change, said he believed the rise in misinformation was "organised and orchestrated" by opponents of climate reforms. I had blocked loads of accounts over on the birdsite (Twitter)," she said. I think we'd become far too used to it on Twitter.
On Mastodon, "I haven't had any abuse at all or even people questioning climate change. It's a much quieter and more thoughtful platform," she told AFP. "It's really been a revelation in many ways. Glaciologist Ruth Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon - a crowdfunded, decentralised grouping of social networks founded in 2016. Hayhoe said that of a Twitter list of 3,000 climate scientists that she keeps, 100 disappeared after the takeover. Others have abandoned Twitter altogether. "In response to almost any tweet concerning climate change, I find my notifications inundated with replies from verified accounts making misleading or misguided claims." "Climate communications on Twitter are less useful (now) given that I can see that my tweets are getting less engagement," he said. Scientists leaving TwitterĪndrew Dessler, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, said he was moving most of his climate communication to Substack, a newsletter platform. Since then, it has not changed," she told AFP. "Before October, my account was growing steadily at a rate of at least several thousand new followers a month. Replies from apparent trolls or bots increased 15 to 30 times over a two-month period compared to the previous two years, Hayhoe tweeted in January 2023. Inauthentic accounts can be identified by analysis tools such as Bot Sentinel. She counted the hostile comments and examined them for signs that they came from bots - automated accounts that researchers say are pushing mass misinformation. In another analysis, prominent climatologist Katharine Hayhoe monitored responses to a tweet on climate change which she published twice, as an experiment, on separate dates before and after the takeover. People on the right should see more “left wing” stuff and people on the left should see more “right wing” stuff.īut you can just block it if you want to stay in an echo chamber.- Elon Musk JanuClimate denial bots But you can just block it if you want to stay in an echo chamber." Twitter has not commented directly about what changes it has made to the algorithms that drive traffic and visibility.Ĭontacted at its email address for comment, its press department returned its now customary reply, an automated email with a "poop" emoji.īut in a tweet seen as an acknowledgement of a deliberate change, Musk wrote in January: "People on the right should see more 'left-wing' stuff and people on the left should see more 'right-wing' stuff. The average number of likes they received was down 38 percent and average retweets fell 40 percent. He found climate scientists' tweets were losing impact. Robert Rohde, a physicist and lead scientist at the non-profit environmental data analysis group Berkeley Earth, analysed activity on hundreds of accounts of widely followed specialists posting about climate science before and after the takeover. While he is accustomed to "offensive, personal, ad hominem attacks, up to and including direct physical threats", he told AFP, "in the past few months, since the takeover and changes at Twitter, the amount, vituperativeness, and intensity of abuse has skyrocketed". For substance.- Real Peter Gleick💧 May 21, 2023 I'll post no new content except info on my new book. Musk & his blue-checked shock troops have completed turning Twitter into a toxic, hate-filled, racist, sexist, anti-Semitic cesspool.
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