False and misleading claims about climate change on Facebook

Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting underway.

Days after Facebook's vice-president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, touted the company's efforts to combat climate misinformation in a blog as the Glasgow summit began, conservative media network Newsmax ran an advertisement on Facebook that called man-made global warming a "hoax"...