The Guardian reports a "huge" rise in hurty feelings of climate scientists on Twitter since Elon Musk took over. The "vicious abuse" includes: "Any luck finding the climate crisis yet?"
Twitter sparked outrage among bloggers by restricting Substack links on the giant social media platform. Jack Watson, a 14 year-old who uses Substack to blog about his football team, explains how disruptive this was for him.
Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, has been banned from LinkedIn for sharing the US Government's own graphs of CO2 levels, which it says are "false" and "not allowed".
Journalist Alex Berenson’s Twitter account has been reinstated as part of a resolution to a censorship lawsuit that both parties agreed to settle – the first tech company climbdown of its kind.
The case for censoring social media to 'save democracy' is not supported by the social science evidence, says Matthew Lesh. He points out that 80% of 'fake news' is shared by just 0.1% of people.
Social media, aided by Covid conformity, has led to young people pursuing a toxic perfectionism, where you must be seen as master of life, not for your own wellbeing, but to justify your inclusion in the world.
The US, UK and 60 other countries have signed a sweeping “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” which commits to bolstering "resilience to misinformation” and censoring “harmful” content.
