Climate misinformation on Facebook ‘increasing substantially’

The scale of misinformation on Facebook about climate change is "staggering". Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

The scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is "staggering" and "increasing quite substantially", a new analysis of hundreds of thousands of posts has found.

A report released on Thursday by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent watchdog group, and environmental nonprofit Stop Funding Heat, analysed a dataset of 195 Facebook pages and groups.