The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) released a new report on Tuesday detailing how little Facebook has done to mitigate the spread of climate change disinformation. The report, which you can read here, lists 10 outlets that account for 69% of Facebook users’ activity with climate change denial content, a majority of which Facebook failed to flag with fact-checking labels. The CCDH looked at a sample of 6,983 articles from all 10 websites published between Oct. 12, 2020, and Oct. 11, 2021. The nonprofit found that just 8% of posts received a fact-checking label that redirects users to Facebook’s “Climate Science Information Center,” which the social media giant rolled out last September. Articles lacking such labels received far more engagement from users, which could explain why Facebook was reticent to use its own fact-checking resources. According to the CCDH, “posts without information labels received an average of 4,322 interactions, compared to 485 for those with labels.” A majority of those interactions came from users engaging with links shared by Breitbart, the far-right disinformation publication once run by Steve Bannon. Read more