Paid advertisements and social media posts spreading false or misleading claims about the climate crisis spiked in the lead-up to and during COP27 in November.
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Websites funded by partisan groups posing as local news outlets are growing as local US newspapers continue to disappear or downsize.
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In brief: the Facebook and Instagram parent company is reducing its workforce by 13%.