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"Federal energy and climate minister Chris Bowen has demanded answers from
social media giants, and Facebook owner Meta in particular, after a series of
articles supportive of electric vehicles and critical of the federal
Coalition’s nuclear policy were removed from their platforms.
Last month,
Renew Economy published an analysis on the soaring cost of
nuclear power by leading economist John Quiggin. We attempted to post it in our
feed on social media but Facebook removed it without explanation.
Other posts critical of the Coalition’s nuclear claims have also been removed,
and readers report that their attempts to post the articles on their Facebook
feeds had also failed.
On Friday, the Australian Conservation Foundation – which has also been
critical of the Coalition’s nuclear policies, also had its page on X, formerly
twitter, frozen, much to the delight of the pro-nuclear zealots, including the
schoolboy funded by the deep-pocketed renewable critic Dick Smith.
“ACF has received another suspension on X for no reason,” the ACF’s head of
engagement Jane Gardiner wrote on her account, which has not been suspended.
“I believe we’re being report bombed by pro-nuclear groups. This is not
isolated: factual nuclear info from @renew_economy & @climatecouncil has also
been removed from Facebook and TikTok recently. We are under attack.”
Last week,
Renew Economy’s EV-focused sister site
The Driven also had a
post removed from Facebook by Meta. This time it was about the start of a new
price war on electric cars, this time driven by MG. Facebook said it was
because the article breached community standards.
Bowen said he was not impressed.
“This is disgraceful,” he wrote on X. “A news outlet publishes a straight and
factual article about EV prices coming down and @Meta bans it.
“Social media has the responsibility to police disinformation and facilitate
factual updates. Social media is of course full of climate disinformation.
There is no excuse for Meta blocking this factual article. I look forward to
Meta justifying this decision.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
