Guest Essay by Linnea Lueken
It appears that “AI bots” are now posting false comments on climate change related articles online. In an article about glaciers in Chile, there are several pro-climate alarm comments that have a suspicious similarity.
They are polite, start with either a personal anecdote or cited an “expert,” explaining how climate change is allegedly affecting the world, and end with an exclamation about how they can understand, given the above facts, why it’s important to “address” or “do something” about climate change.
Thanks for your concern, Charlotte, but I don’t really trust your friend.
Darn indeed Lisa! Kinda weird that you used the phrase “food security” too, and under an article about glaciers, though.
The comment from “Brandon” is the only one of these that actually mentions anything related to the article the comment is under.
This would be a refreshing change of pace from the usual tone of alarmist commentary, except if you are a human being with a functioning brain, with pattern recognition and who can pass Captcha tests (FOX News’ website requires no captcha to make an account and post comments) then you will have noted something suspicious by the second comment.
Hey, isn’t the structure of these awfully similar?
People who have been online for a very long time, generally have a well-honed inner bot detector. Most bots on Twitter are trying to sell some digital coin scam or pornography or use ChatGPT to make a low-effort gimmick Twitter account. These AI “Climate bots”, on the other hand, are selling a narrative.
“Charles Vanderbilt” gave a helpful comment that had nothing to do with the subject of a Fox article about those Just Stop Oil goobers:
This person also has a rich posting history on Reddit’s r/ClimateOffensive, “rich history” meaning one total post with the exact same wording as a comment by “Edward Witmore” on the glacier article:
Charles and one “Ryan White” also posted on this article, here, concerned comments about how they can see the “urgent need to address climate change.” Reddit’s r/climateskeptics also has a few posts by these bots. They only just popped up in the last few days, right after ChatGPT released a new feature that makes it a lot easier for people who know little about programming to develop automated processes that can spam “original” posts like this across the internet.
How expansive is this? Pulling up the same glacier article on other websites shows no similar comments. It looks like, for now, Fox and Reddit are the primary testing grounds, probably because it’s easier to run bots there than places that use Captchas and similar protections for posting. As long as he or she doesn’t lose interest, it’s safe to assume that it’s going to continue.
That’s the next question, though, who is doing it? Most likely, it’s just one person who is trying to do their part to “educate” with climate propaganda. Since it has been posted on subreddits that are both climate skeptical and climate alarmist, there is a good chance that the reddit posting has more to do with “karma farming” right now than propagandizing, but with higher “karma” your posts get boosted so more people see them, so it probably kills both birds anyway.
However, there is another possible source that is not too far-fetched: most likely by way of funding, climate alarm groups and governments.
There are millions and millions of dollars being thrown at any project – associated with universities or otherwise – with the key phrase “climate change” attached, including projects that focus on “communication” – that is, propaganda.
“Checkbook journalism” is increasingly the reason why you see so many articles about climate change flooding your feed, as organizations like the Associated Press accepted millions of dollars from groups like the Rockefeller Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand climate coverage.
Government agencies have held seminars on how to “break and fix audience mental models” regarding climate change, and thanks to testimony by Michael Shellenberger we already know that government and corporate collaboration has been used to stifle dissent on social media.
Why would we think even adolescent bot posts like these wouldn’t also be something the government or wealthy alarmists might throw some money at? After all, the Biden administration is deeply worried about “climate delayism” and has obviously made appeasing the green blob one of their highest priorities, especially as attitudes towards climate policy have apparently cooled.
Again though, it’s probably just one misinformed person sitting at home in his/her PJs, “doing their part” for the climate cause.
This kind of bot spam is easy to do, and it’s going to get easier, and harder to tell the difference between bots and real comments. Right now, they (whoever they are) are spamming comments on any new article at Fox News with the phrase “climate change” in the title or content. This is likely automated.
We really are in an information war, and although it may feel uncomfortable to deploy similar or the same tactics, it might be necessary. We are going to see a lot more of this and worse; you can bet on it.
Linnea Lueken (llueken@heartland.org) is a research fellow with the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute. Twitter: @LinneaLueken
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Or it could just be that CAGW believers only seem to be NPCs.
Sounds very similar to every AI created scam regarding Celebrity Endorsed KETO diet gummies
They really do tend to be a bit devoid of personality, self-awareness or sense of proportion. And none of them could be bothered with facts.
But the fault still lies with every intelligent person that allows any climastrologist to open its stupid mouth, without attacking the fool mercilessly, with satire, and ridicule, and some questioning on the basic natural processes it yammers about.
Never let one of these idjits open its mouth in your presence, without you punishing it. It is every thinking human’s duty, this is a fight for the furure existence of humans as a herd, instead of a hive.
P.S. So far every climastrologist idjit I’ve come across, fell over the same humongous hurdle: “Explain to the good people here how the seasons come about.” So far, none could.
Not. One.
Cilo your English has been dramatically improved since your recent Holocaust denial episode. Have you been upgraded?
Just start a bot war with skeptical comments 😀
I used to think “Yes, lets see what programmers think about it”.
Now I think “Uh, oh, who’s writing checks for the programmers?”
Internet is no longer high tech, it’s just another collection of big (,woke, monopolistic, intimidating) businesses
Wouldn’t that would be marvelous! Might as well stop reading and commenting. Any sane person with anything else in their lives would do so.
It’s somewhat analogous to defenses against air-to-air missiles by releasing clouds of “chaff”. If you’re afraid that skeptical arguments will hit their target, release so much noise that nobody will waste their time sorting through the garbage to find the truth. The chaff doesn’t need to make sense or be compelling or persuasive. It is effective strictly by distraction and wasting time.
Corruption of science, corruption of data, now corruption of the discussion. There is nothing ‘noble cause’ about it any more, just corruption.
Can’t take comments too seriously, although those cited seem particularly dreary.
Bland drab stuff
But more gripping than Griff
I suppose we should have expected this…
Thanks for the analysis. Most helpful.
I don’t think we are in an information war despite new bots. A climate disinformation war, sure, but that goes back 40 years and didn’t need bots. They used Mann, Hansen, Gore, Schellnhuber, Wadhams, and many more real bought off people.
Some favorite real information to combat disinformation:
1. Sea level rise did NOT accelerate as Hansen warned.
2. Summer Arctic sea ice did NOT disappear as Gore and Wadhams warned.
3. Glacier National Park still has glaciers despite years of USNPS warnings.
4. Nothing will happen if 2C plus is reached. Schellnhuber admitted making that tipping point threshold up to alarm the Pope. But it can’t be reached, as observational EBM ECS is only about 1.7C.
5. All climate models (with one exception, INM CM5 in CMIP6) are wrong. They produce a tropical troposphere hotspot that does not in fact exist. And INM CM5 has an ECS of 1.8C.
6. Renewables become Ruinables at any significant grid penetration. Proof is the German Energiewende disaster.
7. Voluntary Paris Accord means nothing, as India and China won’t play along.
8. Contrary to UN SG, oceans are not boiling. I still have to boil my live Maine lobsters for dinner.
9. Planet is greening and global food production increasing thanks to rising CO2.
Part of the rational for the West to eliminate carbon use is to save carbon resources for China and India. Carbon is a transitional fuel and the West will transition first.
Only once nuclear becomes the main-stay of electricity supply.
Even then, the atmosphere and the planet, will still need CO2… preferably considerably more than now.
Carbon is a transitional fuel??? If well over a century of use with several centuries’ supply still available is “transitional” your idea of “transitional” is a bit different to mine. But yes, the west is stupidly handing it over to others with no alternative in sight.
Wow! That’s a lot of minuses for a bit of personal view there!
he/she/it (didn’t tell us his/her/its pronouns) made it seem as if the transition is a good thing
by going bankrupt
The geologic climate of the Earth as a whole is still a 2.58-million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation. The Earth is in a warmer interglacial period that happens about every 100,000 years and lasts about 10,000 years which alternates with a cold glacial period that lasts about 90,000 years. The Earth still has around 200,000 glaciers and 11 percent of the land is permafrost. The ice age the Earth is in won’t end and the geologic climate won’t officially change until all the natural ice melts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
Here is one new 2023 study that says that depending on the surface temperature and solar irradiance datasets that one uses, one can show anything from mostly human-caused warming to mostly natural warming.
‘Challenges in the Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Surface Temperature Trends Since 1850’
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/acf18e
The datasets are historical so there is not much that can be done about them.
This recent study shows that the cold weather we have every year causes about 4.6 million deaths a year globally mainly through increased strokes and heart attacks, compared with about 500,000 deaths a year from hot weather. We can’t easily protect our lungs from the cold air in the winter and that causes our blood vessels to constrict causing blood pressure to increase leading to heart attacks and strokes.
‘Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with nonoptimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
This study from 2015 says that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather and that moderately warm or cool weather kills far more people than extreme weather. Increased strokes and heart attacks from cool weather are the main cause of the weater-related deaths.
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
Bloomberg’s green-energy research team estimated it would cost $US200 Trillion to stop Global Warming by 2050.
There is only $US40 trillion in cash, checking, and savings in the world.
There are about 2 billion households in the world, so that is $US100,000 per household.
Ninety percent of the world’s households can’t afford anything additional so the households in developed nations will have to pay 10 times as much to cover it.
That means about $US 1 million per household in developed countries or about $US 33,000 per year for 30 years. The working people can’t afford anything near that, most would prefer to have a million in the bank and a degree or two of warming.
The millionaires and billionaires have about $US208 billion in wealth. That would cover it, but they won’t give up their wealth.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-05/-200-trillion-is-needed-to-stop-global-warming-that-s-a-bargain#xj4y7vzkg
Just to embed that in my brain, I have to point out that ‘moderate’ indicates normality, and even if people died at a perfectly constant rate, they would still die more often during ‘moderately hot/cold weather’ because that IS the average condition prevailing most every day. Extremes are, well, on the extreme.
Lies, damned lies and statistics, the progress of propaganda.
“The datasets are historical so there is not much that can be done about them.”
I have little confidence in any temperature datasets. Unless there were a million thermometers all over the Earth in 1850 and the same in the same places now- then maybe I’d believe whatever is said about “global temperature”.
At least “Brandon” in the above article received 3 thumbs down.
Do AI bots do debates, or do they just do one-time drive-bys?
I would like to see a debate with an AI. I would like to take part in a debate with AI.
One of the bots in the article above said of his go-to climate expert, that “he asserts”. And I thought that was appropriate since all of alarmist climate change science is made up of speculation, assumptions and unsubstantiated assertions. So a climate alarmist asserting something instead of providing proof is nothing new.
Speculation, assumptions and unsubstantiated assertions are not evidence of anything to do with CO2, or anything else, other than it is evidence alarmist climate sientists don’t use the scientific method. They present speculation, assumptions and assertions as established fact. This is not the scientific method.
Bring those climate alarmist AI’s on!
I thought Andy May or someone else did that, made the AI not cry basically.
Yes, Andy had some conversations with the AI, but the AI is geared for conversation in that circumstance.
I was just wondering if these AI bots have conversations/interactions on websites they are trolling, or do they just put a comment in, favorable to the promotion of human-caused climate change, and leave it at that?
I’m not familiar with how AI trolls operate. The only trolls we have on WUWT are human. I think. 🙂
Professional propagandists actually maintain lists, ranking the emotional impact of certain words on certain demographics at certain instances. That sentence was crafted for that site and that audience. At least, that is the theory, how was the little fleshy robot that programmed that response, programmed?
“Assert” is aimed at those who think themselves clever for misusing words like ‘assert’?
“Assert” ought to be a Red Flag to any legitimate scientist/logical person, that facts are *not* being discussed.
There’s no point debating with a word salad generator. It sounds like a rational human being but there’s no there, there.
Arguing with a bot is assisting the bot owner in his objective of stifling effective discourse.
I think arguing with an AI bot about human-caused climate change would show that the AI doesn’t know what it is talking about, and AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
The same strategy can be applied to human trolls. Not that it deters them, or they ever learn from it.
Exactly right. And my point is that any troll, whether a real person or a bot, is more likely to distract from relevant points and waste so much time that nobody sees the skeptical message because of all the noise. Also trolls bait the skeptic into behaving badly (not that I ever have that problem 😝).
Tom,
In my experience, when posted on an article they mostly are just “drive by” comments, but sometimes an individual will automate their posts and use GPT to write them, then when they see a bot post of theirs was called out, they will log into the bot account and reply in person. I’ve seen it a few times on Twitter at least, but you can often search the wording of the original post and see the exact thing posted from several other accounts, at which point you have a good collection of evidence to submit a spam/bot report to Twitter. 🙂
What about a person who posts the exact same thing on many different articles?
That’s either a troll, or somebody who doesn’t think his message is getting through. 🙂
Separate observation.The whole glaciers melting cause climate change thing is grossly misleading. Glaciers advanced during the LIA, and are now receding again. Proof that this has happened before during the Holocene is dead tree stumps and Otzi emerging under from what was formerly glacial ice. The absolute multiple proofs of past natural variation never seems to get groked by climate alarmists, or by their bots,
If the climate turned cold, and the glaciers stopped melting, there would be a lot of unhappy people whose rivers are fed by meltwater.
They will still melt in summer
Same way the arctic will always refreeze in winter if ever all actually melts in summer
The point you missed is that alpine glaciers rarely melt in the Winter. The major melting is in the Summer.
They still melt in the summer, but not as much.
“The absolute multiple proofs of past natural variation never seems to get groked…”
Fundamentalists of all types never take the scales off their eyes.
I think half of Twitter’s users are bots.
Short sentences… dead give-away.
The bot most likely has access to a collegiate English 101 text book. I prefer a long run on sentence with a comma splice and object reversed. Seems more conversational.
Something to be suspicious about is perfect grammar and spelling. Real humans make misteaks.
“Real humans make misteaks.”
Sometimes very tasty ones. 🙂
I do hope you realize that was done on purpose just to prove I was not a ‘bot. Just like that woman in the TV commercials who tries to imitate a robot badly enough to leave no doubt that she wasn’t a robot.
Of course.. the main course. 😉
maybe you’re just a newer, more sophisticated bot 🙂
I read a science fiction story in which refereeing for sports had been taken over by computers.
In one instance, the computers completely blew a call and it was quite obvious. It was explained that the computers had been programmed to randomly, but infrequently, make mistakes. Just to make the experience more realistic for the fans.
Especially these day’s, when no one know’s how to use apostrophe’s correctly, the words meaning is confusing. There use of English is bad. They’re, there, their, holy keyboard, second grade English is so hard…
same with many YouTube commenters- especially Russian bots supporting the “special military mission”
I see what you did there.
Just today on X, this self-identified AI account replied to me in a thread originated by Scott Adams. At least it was not a mystery as to the nature of the account. But imagine X threads on the topic of climate change being flooded with AI generated responses.
Consensus used in the same sentence as “science” isn’t about science.
Did you report this farker for hate speech? Misinformation? Stalking? I would, if I could, but the whole TwatGramPostBook thing has been a pathetic Ingsoc training resource from day one. I put it down after the first Recommended For You list appeared, full of mind turds, so I can’t take up the fight for you.
Where’s the evidence, Better-GPT? Why tell us to dig deeper when you are the one who is supposed to have all this information at hand?
Don’t tell us how to study the problem. Give us the answers.
I would suggest that the reason you don’t give us such answers is because your programmers don’t have such answers, and don’t want you discussing the subject in that kind of detail, because there is no such detail to discuss. So you talk in generalities, just like all the other climate alarmists.
There is no evidence that CO2 is doing to the Earth’s atmosphere what climate alarmists claim it is doing. No amount of study will find it in the current information available. Humans can’t find it, and neither can Better-GPT.
Are you a climate change propagandist, Better-GPT? Answer: Yes, you are. Whether yu know it or not.
So, fake people making fake comments about a fake crisis. I think we have a trifecta!
Some related observations:
When I go to comment on an article in Yahoo, the comments load and then after a couple of seconds, I receive a notice that there is a connectivity problem. I have to reload to apparently leave a comment. I can’t help but wonder what that is all about.
There was a time when Yahoo didn’t allow comments. There were so many complaints about shutting down comments that they eventually activated comments again. However, the censorship they claim they don’t engage in was so heavy handed that I found it difficult to get anything I wrote accepted. Still, writing “What you wrote is wrong,” is likely to not publish. Censorship seems less strict recently, but one cannot vote at all on an article, only other comments.
Microsoft Start has, within the last couple of days, stopped accepting down-votes on news articles; although, apparently still accepting up-votes. I’m suspicious that they are adding the down-votes to the up-votes. Previously, propaganda articles on gun control typically had about 10X as many down-votes as up votes. I complained about the ‘bug’ and within a few hours 2K down-votes showed up to accompany the 6K up-votes. The next day the 2K down-votes had disappeared with no change in the up-votes. Basically, the voting is now untrustworthy and meaningless.
I see that on MSN UK.
There is ‘something’ reading’comments as you write them.
Then sometimes (not often) a comment will appear straight away, sometimes you’re told that ‘your session has expired’ whatever that means and sometimes you’re told ‘something went wrong’
And sometimes, a comment, as you say, just ‘hangs’ for a couple of seconds THEN you’re told ‘something went wrong’
The one common thing I’ve noticed is that you cannot use words like, ‘boy’ ‘girl’, you often cannot use the names of countries, often ‘climate’ or even just the word ‘change’ get you ignored.
The worst offence, guaranteed to make ‘something go wrong,is to disagree with the premise in the article/story.
Which rules out commenting on almost everything because it is soooo much hysterical click-bait shyte
Then, to cap it all, occasionally a ” 1out of 5″ star rating poll pops up for you to “Rate the quality of this conversation”
THe BBc had something like that managing their comments but it was as subtle and obvious as a flying brick.
I took the piss out of it as often as I could, as did a lot of folks apart from Puritans, gullible/naive kiddywinks and Grauniad readers.
It has now vanished
For a while I couldn’t get MSN to accept comments that had the word “you” in it. I found that if I replaced all the “you”s with “ewe” it would publish. A few other people started doing that. It seems that currently the ‘filter’ is less sensitive to “you.”
I have also seen the request to rate the quality of the conversation. I just ignore it.
I think it is obvious that the main stream media is not happy with the overwhelming push back and is doing everything they can think of to suppress it.
YouTube allows comments to be up or down voted- it counts and shows the up votes but not the down votes.
pure speculation
Sorry it took so long to approve your comment that was sitting in the pending moderation file, Steven. I had to make sure you weren’t an AI Bot.
Regards,
Bob
Are you absolutely certain he isn’t? I have my doubts…
It does have the characteristics of the drive-by comments without engagement. However, the spelling, grammar, capitalization, and lack of punctuation suggest a young humanoid. I think the jury is still out.
He’s not young, but apparently humanoid.
The article says that the AI posts usually start out courteous.
When has steve ever been courteous?
More proof
C’mon Richard. An actual bot can spell, punctuate, capitalize, and conjugate.
Moosh know so little about English, he can’t tell when somethiing is artificially generated.
Ignorance.. all year round.
impure speculation is more fun
Sorry SR
I’m an hour late.
as opposed to unpure speculation
Certainly NOT Immaculate Speculation
Pretty sure ‘the moosh’ was talking about warming by human released CO2.
Yes.. purely speculation.
That’s pretty harsh, I’m sure some of your posts have at least a little bit of fact in them.
Well NO, not that anyone would ever notice !
Thanks Linnnea. The bots probably spell everything correctly, have good grammar and don’t make typos. There might be a narrow range of words – 4 or 5 lines. The bland personalities of the creator of the AI program is probably shining through. There will be no color, humor, puns, double entendres, literary references. They won’t quote Einstein, Churchill, Reagan, Mencken….
Ersatz woke cookie cutter minions who troll here are inseparable from such AI bots. They have websites with responses to sceptics that probably inform their bots with the same pap.
Back when I was teaching in the ’70s, I was experimenting with computer assisted teaching for the mineralogy lab. One of the teaching assistants that I used to ‘beta test’ the program asked me if I had written it. I said, “Yes, why do you ask?” He responded, “Because it sounds just like you.”
Unfortunately that’s not necessarily so. Chatbots can use phrases lifted from other text they ingested without necessarily‘understanding’ the meaning, thus giving the impression of a deep thought by imitating a deep thinker.
I’ve actually had a friend send me an essay that “he wrote” that was so full of flowery language, quotes from great writers, and metaphors that I was repulsed by it, because either my friend was one of those people who thinks spamming $20 words makes you sound smart, or it was written by a computer that thought this is what smart people sound like. In the end, it had an uncanny valley effect on me, and I had to re-read paragraphs several times to understand them even though they were written technically correctly.
It triggered my bot-detection, so my first question to him was “did you use ChatGPT to write this?”
He admitted that he had, and that he trained the bot on works by Ayn Rand and others. I told him essentially that he designed the most inhuman thing I had ever read.
A lot of influential “very old money” Is going to be lost on the climate change/green energy scam and they are desperately trying to stop their losses.
Money does not imply wisdom. Most rich people cruise on expert advise, insider knowledge and having a near inexhaustable supply of capital. So, sure, the fools will be parted from their money, and soon, but the real players? This is their final investment, because the prize is LITERALLY ownership of the world. They already have all the money, now they are spending it on making sure you will never need any again.
Destroy your civilisation with Green Gospel? How else will they lay claim to your land? So, any rich guy you hear complaining, you must know he was not invited to the Real Meeting either.
‘This is ot a bunch of libtard jokers, this is World War Three.
Most rich people got rich on their own.
Just now noticing? Another surprise, worthy of Claude Rains’ Insector Renault “…shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this establishment..”
Prediction: Now that the FAANGsters have captured Western world governments with their AI scare, there will be even more of these frauds going into the next US and UK elections.
The lie is that this is new technology, or based on scary AI: the truth is that this sort of chat bot has existed longer than the FAANGsters, who have used it from the beginning of “social media” to manipulate numbers and stock prices. Now they’ve conned governments into letting them limit their competition — again (remeber the DMCA, anyone).
There is A God – with humour and a sense of timing to boot. (Same thing)
>While putting together my reply to self here a minute ago, A Song started playing on Twitch dot TV
♪♫
Some perfect stranger speaks when I speak
Walks in my footsteps
And talks in my sleep
My favourite stranger stands where I stand
Leaves crime in my wake
And blood on my hands
/ ♪♫
Remix of Depeche Mode
Thanks Linnea – actually a fun read.
The web isn’t the only place to find silliness.
Earlier today I got a flyer in the mail from a company in a city over 100 miles away. The offer was a discount on having windows installed. One of the main points was that they have recently installed 5,000 windows in my neighborhood.
That would pretty much be every window {twice} in every house in what I would call my neighborhood. I’m a little isolated on a dead-end road in cattle country.
The world is their neighborhood, John, and recently the ice shelf receded revealing Canada. After 100 years in business, they’re hoping to install #5001 at your house.
I”ve tried ChatGPT. As a one time programmer I found it to be very biased hence usless.
Climate change is not possible to forecast according to the UNIPCC (TAR report).
The ice is rebuilding in the Antarctic too. Did you know there are 93 volcanoes under that area?
Actually there are over a hundred and those are just the ones they’ve found so far, there are probably far more.
Yes, a recent gravimetric survey to find seamounts, so that submarines quit running into them, nearly doubled the known number just in the southern hemisphere.
Slightly off topic: I read yesterday where the eruption of Honga-Tunga had an outflow of material that traveled 100 kilometers out from the volcano, wiping out cables and pipelines that were near it. It completely redid the sea floor in that area.
It’s highly unlikely it’s one person working from home.
Read Racket and The Free Press along with Public to understand just how pervasive this narrative control and censorship is, all emanating from governments and all began with the climate emergency nonsense.
Here is an example of what you are talking about:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-blocks-order-curbing-biden-administration-social-media-contacts-2023-10-20/
US Supreme Court blocks order curbing Biden administration social media contacts
By Andrew Chung
October 20, 20239:31 PM UTC
“Oct 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions imposed by lower courts on the ability of President Joe Biden’s administration to encourage social media companies to remove content deemed misinformation, including about elections and COVID-19.
The justices granted the administration’s request to put on hold a preliminary injunction constraining how White House and certain other federal officials communicate with social media platforms. The justices also agreed to hear arguments to decide the merits of the administration’s appeal of the rulings by the lower courts.
Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch publicly dissented from the decision to pause the injunction pending the Supreme Court’s review.
The Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and a group of social media users sued federal officials, accusing them of unlawfully helping suppress conservative-leaning speech on major social medial platforms, such as Meta’s (META.O) Facebook, Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube and X, formerly called Twitter.
Lower courts found that administration officials likely coerced the companies into censoring certain posts, in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment free speech protections.
The case represents one of numerous legal battles underway pitting free speech against content moderation on the internet.”
end excerpt
The radical Democrats are on a mission to censor their political opposition, just as every dictatorial regime in history has done.
Keep an eye out for Keep an Eye Out for AI “Denial Bots” Haunting the Web.
If they dont exist yet, they will be invented then “leaked”.
They’re already active. They usually throw in some rather tedious personal insults, then get the science confused with the scéance, proceeding to offering a sincere apology to anyone that could educate them better.
Mostly, they read like toddlers trying to make fun of Granny’s dementia.
Nowwhy on any god’s earth would anyone take offence at that statement? Eh, Marky?
Paranoid much?
As evidence, I give you cilo.
Please don’t. Say you’ll take him back.
I can’t comment this kind of crap makes me so mad.
OT.
Watching Antarctic sea ice …
Looks like in the next couple of days it will return to be with the rest of the pack.