Climate-denial tag topping Twitter searches

Researchers and campaigners say that despite measures announced by social platforms, climate misinformation is thriving, undermining belief in climate change and the action needed to tackle it. — Photo by Souvik Banerjee on Unsplash

PARIS: The climate change-denial tag "ClimateScam" has become a top search term on Twitter, prompting monitors to warn Monday of a rise in misinformation following Elon Musk's takeover of the platform.

Typing "climate" in Twitter's generic search bar returned "ClimateScam" as the top suggested result, followed by "ClimateAction" and "ClimateEmergency".