{"id":427472,"date":"2026-02-22T20:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427472"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:29:21","slug":"aussie-senator-us-social-media-reluctance-to-censor-climate-skeptics-this-is-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427472","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Senator: US Social Media Reluctance to Censor Climate Skeptics \u2013 \u201cThis is the Problem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently free speech is OK, as long as the Australian Government thinks what you are saying is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senate committee features climate disinformation, the Atlas Network, and Dr Karl\u2019s clash with One Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By business reporter Gareth Hutchens<\/a>
Disinformation and Misinformation<\/a>
Thu 19 Feb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Senate\u2019s select committee on information integrity on climate change and energy<\/a> held two days of public hearings in Canberra this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The committee is investigating how online bots and trolls, disinformation campaigns and tactics like \u201castroturfing\u201d (fake grassroots campaigns) are delaying global action on climate change and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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But how does one definitively \u201cprove\u201d that someone is acting in bad faith? Who gets to be the judge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meta would know that some of today\u2019s most powerful political leaders are relying on the viral nature of algorithms to spread deeply racist, harmful and untrue messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would know about Brandolini\u2019s law<\/a>, which states that the time and energy needed to correct misinformation is far greater than that needed to produce and spread it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Meta did not see that type of censorship of politicians as its responsibility, unless the politician was inciting violence, its representatives said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the problem,\u201d Labor senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah told Meta\u2019s representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-19\/climate-disinformation-senate-committee-dr-karl-atlas-network\/106350002<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sorry Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah. You had your chance and you blew it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before President Trump, greens enjoyed years of near total victory. Sure, there were always some people who looked beyond the hype, but for most of the last two decades, climate alarmists were rock stars. Billions of dollars were committed to the glorious green energy revolution. A young woman who quit school was invited to speak to parliaments and united nations assemblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet despite all the money spent, despite all the claims that renewables are the cheapest source of energy, fossil fuels still dominate energy production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, the main thing holding up \u201cprogress\u201d on renewable energy is it doesn\u2019t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Trump hating film producer Michael Moore<\/a> gets it. Moore set out to expose the fossil fuel conspiracy which he believed was holding back the green energy revolution. But this isn\u2019t what Moore found \u2013 Moore discovered the real hold up is Green energy isn\u2019t living up to its promises, that proponents appear to wildly exaggerate the potential of renewables, while swilling on public subsidies. And to his credit, Moore decided to tell everyone what he discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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