YouTube is making millions of dollars a year from advertising on channels that make false claims about climate change, as content creators employ new tactics that evade the platform’s policies to combat misinformation, according to a report published on Tuesday.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used artificial intelligence to review transcripts of 12,058 videos from the past six years on 96 YouTube channels. YouTube is owned by Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google.
The channels promoted content that undermines the scientific consensus on climate change that human behaviour contributes to long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns, the report said.
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