Facebook letting advertisers sow climate denialism: analysis

Facebook is allowing climate misinformation ads to proliferate despite claiming it is committed to rooting out the problem, a new report by a think tank said Thursday. InfluenceMap used the platform’s own data to identify 51 ads denying the link between human activity and climate change that were viewed a total of eight million times over the first half of 2020. This was despite the fact that Facebook bans false ads, and stated as recently as…