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Drilled Presents: Living Planet on Disinformation

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The Problem With Climate Misinformation on Wikipedia

The most common category of climate misinformation was attacking climate scientists or attacking climate science itself. The point being to reduce public trust in climate science. Wikipedia is written by volunteers, and it's in over 300 languages. So we've identified about 25,000 articles that are explicitly about climate change. But if you just think about the like wide reaching impacts of climate change on cities, infrastructure, water, agriculture, there's a lot of other connected topics where climate related content can be shared.

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