Dem Lawmaker Gets Pushback After Asking YouTube To Stop Spreading Climate Skepticism
Daily Caller Chris White | January 30, 2020 Democratic Florida Rep. Kathy Castor is getting pushback from climate skeptics after she asked Google on Monday to nix content on YouTube that takes a skeptical approach to United Nations’ climate models. Castor asked CEO Sundar Pichai in a Jan. 27 letter not to incentivize “climate misinformation content on its platform.” She made the request after a Jan. 16 report from a nonprofit group suggested it found examples where YouTube’s algorithms promoted so-called climate denialism. “Stop promoting climate denial and climate disinformation videos by removing them immediately from the platform’s recommendation algorithm,” …