Sharm el Sheikh,Egypt — Campaigners on Tuesday urged leaders on the COP27 summit and large tech firms to formally crack down on local weather disinformation that undermines efforts to restrict the lethal impacts of world warming.
In an open letter, they referred to as on COP27 delegates to undertake a standard definition of local weather disinformation and misinformation and work to forestall it.
They referred to as on the bosses of seven digital giants, together with Fb, Google, and Twitter, to implement robust insurance policies to cease false local weather info spreading on their platforms as they did for COVID-19.
“We can not beat local weather change with out tackling local weather misinformation and disinformation,” they wrote.
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Carry on studying: COP27 leaders urged to battle local weather disinformation