Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter Initiated Departure of Climate Voices

  • Post Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, nearly half of the 300,000 ‘environmentally oriented’ accounts have become inactive.
  • Researchers found a significant decrease in climate-related users as compared to a political user sample group within the same timeframe (December 2022 to May 2023).
  • Changes under Musk included cutting content moderation staff, invalidating verification systems, and increased instances of hate speech and climate misinformation.
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