Conspiracy theorists abound in climate change conversation on YouTube, study finds


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 25 Jul 2019

A music consumer report published on Oct 9 found that 86% of us listen to music through on-demand streaming. And nearly half that time is spent on YouTube. – AFP Relaxnews

YouTube is great for many things: makeup tutorials, entertaining animal clips and oddly satisfying videos of people smashing their faces into loaves of bread. It’s not necessarily great for nuanced scientific explanations. 

Many of the most popular videos on the service, owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google, denounce or ignore mainstream climate science, while others propagate conspiracy theories, according to new research by Frontiers in Communication. 

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