Pinterest will ban climate misinformation
is rolling out a policy that bans climate misinformation, including climate change denial, false claims about solutions to climate change, misrepresentations of scientific data and"harmful" bogus statements on natural disasters and other extreme weather. It'll likely disappear if it contradicts the well-supported scientific consensus, in other words.
An update to Pinterest's ad guidelines also"explicitly" bans marketing material that promotes climate change misinformation and conspiracy theories. The policies were built with the help of expert groups that include the Climate Disinformation Coalition and Conscious Advertising Network. The company claims to be the first major internet platform with"clearly defined" policies barring false climate change claims for both content and ads. That's true to at least some degree. Facebook mainly
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