UN Official Calls for Censorship to Fight 'Climate Hoax' and Boost Agenda 2030 Narrative

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Melissa "we own the science" Fleming, head of the UN's Department of Global Communications:

"Without a healthy information ecosystem, we cannot make advances on [UN Agenda 2030]. For example... if climate change is being distorted or being called a hoax."

"Currently, our information ecosystem is polluted with misinformation, and disinformation, and hate speech... We don't have a set of agreed facts anymore."

"It used to be that the consensus is that climate change exists. Now this is being questioned."

"There is unaccountable, harmful content circulating on social media... being amplified because the algorithms are trained to boost content that is outrageous, that sparks fear."

"Disinformation should not be monetised. And that is unfortunately what is driving a lot of the disinformation, fake news sites, deep fakes—that it is actually profitable to spew disinformation and hate. And this needs to end."

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