The Frankie Boyle “Twit on Twitter” Award
The 2020 “Twit on Twitter” award goes to Shell Oil for asking others what they are going to do about emissions to help the #Climate
Fake News Update: Twitter Bans 7,000 QAnon accounts
Twitter has taken the bold step of removing thousands of QAnon accounts. What is the backstory here, why have they done this?
Bots: 25% of Climate tweets are fake
The Guardian reports that as many as 25% of climate related tweets are bots. How can you tell if a twitter account is human or a bot?
Anti-vaxxer group ridiculed by vast numbers
Anti-vaxxer group asks for term “anti-vaxxer” to be dropped. Thousands quite rightly ridicule them because 140,000 died last year from measles
Trollbot swarms
What is a trollbot, and what are they currently being deployed to do on social media platforms? How can we actually see what is happening?
Fact Check: Was June Hottest Month?
Tweets have been circulating on social media declaring that June 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded. For example … So was it? Quick Answer: Nope. Slightly longer answer is this correction from Climatologist Michael E Mann … But how do we know? The alpha source for all of the latest “Hottest” claims comes from … Read more