In addition to the charlatans who have abandoned science to become paid propagandists, the illusion of numbers of deniers is being boosted by the use of bots according to this study!
A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots.
Bots are computer programs that can masquerade as humans to post or send messages on social media.
Researchers discovered tweets posted by bots created the impression there was a high level of climate change denial.
The paper detailing the finds has not yet been published and was first reported by The Guardian newspaper.
The research team analysed 6.5 million tweets from the period surrounding President Donald Trump's June 2017 announcement that he was removing the United States from the Paris climate accord.
The finding showed 25% of tweets on climate change were likely posted by bots. Most of those tweets centred on denials of global warming or rejections of climate science.
Researchers used a tool from Indiana University called Botometer to determine the probability that a tweet was sent by bots or by humans. Within the overarching topic of climate change, they also broke down several subcategories.
Tweets about "fake science" were found to have been written by bots 38% of the time and 28% of tweets about oil company Exxon were posted by bots.
Bots post quarter of climate change tweets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51595285
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR0vmmuNKDy4CeSfxgH_Zvmfv7yVu2G0TSmIGUpm3biKkEupyCHEOcDrivg
A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots.
Bots are computer programs that can masquerade as humans to post or send messages on social media.
Researchers discovered tweets posted by bots created the impression there was a high level of climate change denial.
The paper detailing the finds has not yet been published and was first reported by The Guardian newspaper.
The research team analysed 6.5 million tweets from the period surrounding President Donald Trump's June 2017 announcement that he was removing the United States from the Paris climate accord.
The finding showed 25% of tweets on climate change were likely posted by bots. Most of those tweets centred on denials of global warming or rejections of climate science.
Researchers used a tool from Indiana University called Botometer to determine the probability that a tweet was sent by bots or by humans. Within the overarching topic of climate change, they also broke down several subcategories.
Tweets about "fake science" were found to have been written by bots 38% of the time and 28% of tweets about oil company Exxon were posted by bots.
Bots post quarter of climate change tweets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51595285
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR0vmmuNKDy4CeSfxgH_Zvmfv7yVu2G0TSmIGUpm3biKkEupyCHEOcDrivg
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