Tell Facebook to Stop Hiring Climate Change Deniers
Tell Facebook to Stop Hiring Climate Change Deniers
The Issue
Facebook has hired an organization linked to anti-science climate change deniers and the Fossil Fuel industry to patrol its platform for fake news.
"Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg keeps dashing any hope that the world’s largest social media platform might be a positive force in the fight against catastrophic climate change. In its latest disastrous move to fight the online epidemic of fake news, Facebook’s fact-checking effort announced last week that it was teaming up with CheckYourFact.com — an arm of the conservative, anti-science media site The Daily Caller.
The Daily Caller, which has published misinformation about climate science for years, was co-founded by the science-denying Fox News host Tucker Carlson and is backed by major conservative donors, including Charles and David Koch, the billionaire fossil fuel barons who are the single biggest funders of climate science misinformation." --Joe Romm, 4/27/19, Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/
We call on Facebook to take the following actions:
1) Cease doing business with CheckYourFact.com (a front for the Fossil Fuel Industry, the chief culprit in causing climate change and global warming) and hire reputable and objective fact checkers
2) Take a proactive, vigorous stance and join other socially and environmentally corporations in opposing anti-science, climate change denying groups, most of which are funded by Fossil Fuel interests which have an earth-destroying agenda
3) Actively monitor, police, and remove from the Facebook platform fake news and disinformation intended to confuse and mislead the public about scientific fact and the reality of climate change
4) Listen to your customers -- such as nonprofit organizations trying to educate the public on the reality of climate change and which buy advertising on Facebook -- and user base. Poll after poll indicates that the public knows climate change is a reality and caused by human activity. The public, including most Facebook users, want immediate action at all levels of government to halt and reverse climate change -- the greatest threat humankind has ever faced. We have about a decade left to act before cataclysmic climate change destroys human civilization. The time to get on the right side of history is NOW, Mr. Zuckerberg.
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The Issue
Facebook has hired an organization linked to anti-science climate change deniers and the Fossil Fuel industry to patrol its platform for fake news.
"Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg keeps dashing any hope that the world’s largest social media platform might be a positive force in the fight against catastrophic climate change. In its latest disastrous move to fight the online epidemic of fake news, Facebook’s fact-checking effort announced last week that it was teaming up with CheckYourFact.com — an arm of the conservative, anti-science media site The Daily Caller.
The Daily Caller, which has published misinformation about climate science for years, was co-founded by the science-denying Fox News host Tucker Carlson and is backed by major conservative donors, including Charles and David Koch, the billionaire fossil fuel barons who are the single biggest funders of climate science misinformation." --Joe Romm, 4/27/19, Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/
We call on Facebook to take the following actions:
1) Cease doing business with CheckYourFact.com (a front for the Fossil Fuel Industry, the chief culprit in causing climate change and global warming) and hire reputable and objective fact checkers
2) Take a proactive, vigorous stance and join other socially and environmentally corporations in opposing anti-science, climate change denying groups, most of which are funded by Fossil Fuel interests which have an earth-destroying agenda
3) Actively monitor, police, and remove from the Facebook platform fake news and disinformation intended to confuse and mislead the public about scientific fact and the reality of climate change
4) Listen to your customers -- such as nonprofit organizations trying to educate the public on the reality of climate change and which buy advertising on Facebook -- and user base. Poll after poll indicates that the public knows climate change is a reality and caused by human activity. The public, including most Facebook users, want immediate action at all levels of government to halt and reverse climate change -- the greatest threat humankind has ever faced. We have about a decade left to act before cataclysmic climate change destroys human civilization. The time to get on the right side of history is NOW, Mr. Zuckerberg.
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Petition created on April 30, 2019