False narratives about renewable energy are malleable and adapted to different languages after extreme weather events in different countries, the researchers found.
Social media accounts affiliated with the Spanish far-right party Vox picked up such narratives weeks later and amplified them online, even falsely claiming that theLakatos said such conspiracy theories ultimately try to falsely argue that"wildfires aren't exacerbated by climate change."has already contributed to the planet’s warming about 1.1 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, according to a March report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Despite being from different countries, the accounts in the network are connected by shared ideology and language, López G. said.Over the past year, Spanish-language social media users across those networks in Spain and Latin America have shared and translated clips and conspiracy theories from a documentary-like video claiming that noise from offshore wind farms killed over 60 whales, the study found.
The researchers also found that Facebook groups created to organize specific communities opposing local renewable energy projects evolved into hubs for falsehoods and general anti-renewables discourse.López G.
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