- Instagram was said to have Climate change conspiracy memes across the web. Thousands of Instagram posts were shown using hashtags like #climatehoax, #globalwarmingisfake, #globalcooling, #climatescam, and many more which have gotten at least half a million views, likes, or comments on the platform and remain active. Many of the most popular posts denied the existence of climate change, challenged the idea that it is caused by humans, claimed the world was entering an era of global cooling, or that global warming was part of a plot to control the world’s population. An idea from Mclntyre’s “On Disinformation” is that people deliberately spread false or misleading information on the internet to deceive or manipulate public opinion. He explains how disinformation campaigns exploit cognitive biases, existing societal divisions, and the use of social media to amplify their message which is that climate change is fake in this particular case.
https://firstdraftnews.org/articles/climate-change-misinformation-conspiracy-memes/
2. A celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan posted a conspiracy theory about global warming to Earth’s magnetic field has gone viral on TikTok. He uses this conspiracy theory to downplay the climate crisis and calls efforts to address it “a moot point”. they identified seven TikTok videos promoting the so-called “Adam and Eve” theory, which purports without evidence that shifts in Earth’s magnetic poles have long caused massive swings in the planet’s climate and other catastrophic events of the past, including the floods referenced in the biblical tale of Noah’s Ark. The video gained more than 20 million views on TikTok. The book Foolproof by van der Linden relates to the concept of “echo chambers” and “filter bubbles” he discusses how social media often prioritize content that aligns with users’ existing beliefs and preferences, creating echo chambers where individuals are primarily exposed to information that relates and pushes these ideas. This can spread misinformation on climate change even more and create it less likely to encounter opposing views or factual information that isn’t their beliefs.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30052023/todays-climate-joe-rogan-climate-misinformation-tiktok/
