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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

Alarm at exodus of climate voices on Twitter after Musk takeover

A climate hashtag on a sign at a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2019.
A climate hashtag on a sign at a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2019. Photograph: Monirul Alam/EPA

Half of people regularly tweeting about the climate and nature crises abandoned Twitter after it was taken over by Elon Musk, according to new analysis.

The researchers said Twitter, now renamed X, had previously been the leading social media platform for environmental discussion and the decline was “troubling”. They said the “exodus of environmental users on Twitter is an existential threat” to a main way of informing people who want to take climate action.

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