Your reporting was always fair [but] your fires story was so … unfair even Facebook tagged it …” A warning from Facebook carries weight! What’s worse, is that now Facebook says it will show my content to fewer people. Yikes! My news model is based on social media companies showing you videos.
Why did Facebook penalize me? I clicked the button that says “See why.” It goes to a page from a group called Climate Feedback that writes about climate change and claims to sort “fact from fiction.” Facebook gives this little group power to cut me off? Yes! Climate Feedback posted this statement in quotes,
As if it’s something I said, and calls that statement misleading, saying it “misrepresents a complex reality.” Well it does. But I never said that. I actually said: Climate change has made things worse. California has warmed three degrees over 50 years. Facebook’s letting activists restrict my views based on things I never said!
Now Facebook’s a private company. It can censor anything it wants. and I feel for Mark Zuckerberg. Do you see a potential problem here? People from all sides accuse Facebook of favoring the other side’s posts. A pervasive pattern of political bias. Do you fact check on any ads?
But there’s no way Facebook can police everything. The site carries billions of posts. I wish they’d just let the information flow. People will learn to sort truth from lies. But what Facebook did to try to please politicians, is let other people censor. We work with a set of independent fact checkers.
That’s how Climate Feedback gets its power. Facebook says I can appeal, but my appeal must go to Climate Feedback I tried. I emailed the editor. She didn’t respond. But 2 of the 3 scientists listed as reviewers did agree to interviews. You’re smearing me based on something I didn’t say.
Yeah, I mean, I’ve never commented on your article. That was a shock. He hadn’t even seen my video! If this is implying that we have reviewed the video, then this is clearly wrong. There’s something wrong with the system. He said my video was probably flagged because I interviewed environmentalist Michael Shellenberger.
Climate Feedback doesn’t like his new book that criticizes environmental alarmism. My assumption is because Shellenberger pops up in there and his statements have basically been shown to be partially wrong. This issue has become very political, which is unfortunate. Zeke Hausfather is another Climate Feedback reviewer. He hadn’t seen the video either.
I certainly did not write a Climate Feedback piece reviewing your segment. So we sent him a link to my video and he watched it. Is that a fair label on the video that I did? I don’t necessarily think so, you know, while there are plenty of debates around
On how much to emphasize fire management vs. climate change, your piece clearly discussed that both were at fault here. After Hausfather and Doerr admitted that Climate Feedback hadn’t shown them my video, Climate Feedback’s editor finally responded to our emails. She gave us an email address where we could file a complaint.
When we did, they wrote us back that now, finally, they have watched the video. But they stand by their smear because the claims don’t accurately reflect scientific evidence. Also, both scientists I interviewed e-mailed me after to say they do support Climate Feedback’s position,
Hausfather writing, after “talk[ing] to the folks at Climate Feedback” he now thinks my video “minimizes the role of climate.” Ahh, that’s what this is about. I interviewed Shellenberger, who argues A small change in temperature is not the difference between normalcy and catastrophe. And Climate Feedback doesn’t want people to hear that.
It’s enraging that Facebook gives these activists the power to silence one side of the debate. This is why I suggest you sign up for our email list. Just click the link there! I promise I will not sell your email to people who will send you spam.
It’s just for us, so that once a week, we can email you new videos, and we don’t have to rely Facebook or any other social media site. [Swoosh] If you can, please support us with a contribution, so we can fight Climate Feedback, and other people who wanna shut us up.
