Reddit's climate change debate rarely cites science
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In twelve years of Reddit climate change discussion, only 4-6% of the posted links point to scientific sources, new research shows. While the number of scientific links have increased in recent years, they're dwarfed by the number of links to news sites and other social media posts. Scientific links are more likely to be posted by users who also post centre-left political sources, and less so by those posting more polarized sources.
Funder: The authors acknowledge support
from the Lagrange Project of the Institute for
Scientific Interchange Foundation (ISI
Foundation, to PC, MT, KK, DP, YM) funded by
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino
(Fondazione CRT), Italy.
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