Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming

In this empirical study, we collected about 6.8 million tweets that mentioned “fake news”, and we extracted references to climate change and/or global warming to understand the public discourses around these two issues. Using a mixed method, the study’s findings show that there is a clear politicall...

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Autores principales:	Ahmed Al-Rawi, Derrick OʼKeefe, Oumar Kane, Aimé-Jules Bizimana
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	climate cahnge fake news global wanning political polarization social media Communication. Mass media P87-96
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:444e0d4746844f60bb7976886d8491c22021-11-22T07:21:23ZTwitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming2297-900X10.3389/fcomm.2021.729818https://doaj.org/article/444e0d4746844f60bb7976886d8491c22021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.729818/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2297-900XIn this empirical study, we collected about 6.8 million tweets that mentioned “fake news”, and we extracted references to climate change and/or global warming to understand the public discourses around these two issues. Using a mixed method, the study’s findings show that there is a clear politically polarized discussion on climate change. We found that the majority of tweets focus on the United States context though references to other Western coutnries are often made. The anti-Liberal or anti-Democratic online community was more active on Twitter than the anti-conservative or anti-Republican community. Also, more than half the examined most retweeted posts contained claims about climate change being a natural cycle or even denying it exists, while about a third of these tweets stated that climate change was anthropogenic. The implications of the study are discussed, we argue that fake news as a term has a hollow meaning as it is used as a buzzword to discredit opponents and further the political agenda of different parties not only in the United States but also in other Western countries like Australia.Ahmed Al-RawiDerrick OʼKeefeOumar KaneAimé-Jules BizimanaFrontiers Media S.A.articleclimate cahngefake newsglobal wanningpolitical polarizationsocial mediaCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96ENFrontiers in Communication, Vol 6 (2021)
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spellingShingle	climate cahnge fake news global wanning political polarization social media Communication. Mass media P87-96 Ahmed Al-Rawi Derrick OʼKeefe Oumar Kane Aimé-Jules Bizimana Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming
description	In this empirical study, we collected about 6.8 million tweets that mentioned “fake news”, and we extracted references to climate change and/or global warming to understand the public discourses around these two issues. Using a mixed method, the study’s findings show that there is a clear politically polarized discussion on climate change. We found that the majority of tweets focus on the United States context though references to other Western coutnries are often made. The anti-Liberal or anti-Democratic online community was more active on Twitter than the anti-conservative or anti-Republican community. Also, more than half the examined most retweeted posts contained claims about climate change being a natural cycle or even denying it exists, while about a third of these tweets stated that climate change was anthropogenic. The implications of the study are discussed, we argue that fake news as a term has a hollow meaning as it is used as a buzzword to discredit opponents and further the political agenda of different parties not only in the United States but also in other Western countries like Australia.
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author	Ahmed Al-Rawi Derrick OʼKeefe Oumar Kane Aimé-Jules Bizimana
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title	Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming
title_short	Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming
title_full	Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming
title_fullStr	Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming
title_full_unstemmed	Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming
title_sort	twitter’s fake news discourses around climate change and global warming
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/444e0d4746844f60bb7976886d8491c2
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Twitter’s Fake News Discourses Around Climate Change and Global Warming

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