New report shows that 10 Facebook pages are responsible for 69% of climate denial posts

A new report from the Center For Countering Digital Hate analyzed nearly 7,000 top-performing climate denial Facebook posts from the last year, and found that 69% of them came from the same 10 pages:

• Breitbart
• Western Journal
• Newsmax
• Townhall Media (which, the report notes, was founded by the Exxon-funded Heritage Foundation)
• Media Research Center (another Exxon-backed "think tank")
• The Washington Times
• The Federalist Papers
• Daily Wire
• RT.com

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