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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Kaja Traczyk

YouTube Makes Over $13 million off Climate Change Denial

The shift in tactics of climate change denial could also help creators get around YouTube’s policy banning them from making money on climate change denial content, the report suggests. (Credit: AFP News)

Streaming Platform YouTube said they analysed over 12,000 videos across 96 channels using an AI model crafted specifically to be able to distinguish between reasonable scepticism and false information.

In the past, most climate change deniers would write off climate change as a hoax or a scam, however many are now shifting to a different approach, which attempts to undermine climate science, cast doubt on climate solutions and even claim global warming will be harmless or even beneficial.

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