Facebook to “fact-check” opinions of climate change skeptics, introduce new “climate information center”

Facebook has a new plan to crack down on those who don’t go along with the mainstream narrative on climate climate change.

In the past, the social platform has allowed posts challenging the idea of manmade climate change, claiming they are opinion-based and do not cause imminent danger and so don’t need to be censored.

When users report what they think is climate change misinformation, third-party fact-checkers review the content.

However, there have been calls for changes to the system as it has been accused of not being very effective. A group called CO2 Coalition was banned from advertising after multiple misinformation violations, including claiming that the CO2 from humans helps the planet. However, the group successfully appealed the ban, and the fact-check labels on its posts were removed.

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