Me and a few other climate folks on Twitter have noticed a very clear new prominence of climate deniers and delayers
So with some help, I gathered up some data and checked - it turns out that denial/delay, pro-fossil disinformation accounts have seen massive growth in their audience, while pro-climate-action accounts have either stagnated or shrunk.
Elon Musk is reshaping Twitter into a safe space for right-wingers, and in doing so, empowering climate change deniers, delayers and pro-fossil advocates more than ever before.
New post:
https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/03/28/musk-is-remaking-twitter-into-a-climate-denier-sanctuary/
Twitter can no longer keep people safe, insiders seem to have admitted that. So by staying on the platform you are either doing so at your own risk, doing so to help report issues (no issue with that) or staying there as you are part of the new wave of users on there who want to abuse others (again if it keeps you off fedi, then fine).
Danger is everyone will at some point be tainted with the same brush, reputations could be seriously damaged by being on Twitter.
Perhaps it is this last point that is really scary as the rest of the world needs to know what is going on from an independent, objective viewpoint.
