Facebook Builds Climate Science Information Center Addressing Climate Change

Providing Users with Climate Information Facts, Figures, and Sources

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[Asia Economy Reporter Jin-gyu Lee] Facebook is establishing a 'Climate Science Information Center' to provide science-based climate information such as climate change.

According to TechCrunch and other foreign media on the 16th, Facebook plans to provide Facebook users with facts, figures, and sources related to climate information through the Climate Science Information Center.

Sources of climate information include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the World Meteorological Organization.

The Climate Science Information Center is initially launching in countries such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Facebook stated that users in other countries will be able to use the service in the future.

Facebook also plans to continuously reduce the distribution of posts containing false information in the News Feed feature and label such posts as false. However, it did not disclose whether posts containing misinformation about climate change will be deleted or labeled.

This announcement of the Climate Science Information Center by Facebook comes in response to the spread of false information on Facebook regarding wildfires spreading in the western United States. Fake news blaming Antifa (anti-fascist far-left) arsonists for the California wildfires has been shared more than 63,000 times recently on Facebook.

Earlier, to prevent the spread of false information on its platform, Facebook launched the Covid Hub in March to handle information related to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), and in August, it launched the Voter Information Center.

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