"A group calling themselves climate power have demanded Facebook take a more aggressive stance against people who promote what they claim are climate lies...
FACEBOOK: ACT URGENTLY TO TAKE ON THE THREAT OF CLIMATE DENIERSA follow-up open letter to Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Facebook’s Oversight Board-July 7, 2020To: Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Facebook Oversight BoardWe are disappointed to have received a response from the Oversight Board’s head of communications to our July 1, 2020 letter instead of yourself or another Oversight Board co-chair. The Facebook-created loophole allows climate deniers to circumvent independent fact-checkers to publish lies and misinformation.
...Meanwhile, Facebook is allowing misinformation to spread, and they are hiding behind the promise of an “Oversight Board” that appears to be in name only....As environmental leaders, we feel an urgent duty to take on the threat of climate deniers and climate change. We expect Facebook to work with the same urgency...
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