The right-wing media personalities driving climate skepticism on Facebook
Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck, and others get 2.8M engagements last month on climate-related posts
As Kevin Roose at the New York Times regularly tracks, just a handful of far-right pundits - the likes of Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Franklin Graham - consistently dominate post engagement on Facebook, often outperforming legitimate news sites like the New York Times and CNN.
We took a look at these bad actors and have listed their top-performing posts mentioning climate change over the past month. This data was compiled via Crowdtangle.
Last month, we shared the 7 top narratives that conservatives and climate deniers are using to push skepticism of climate change online - you’ll notice that nearly all of their posts fit into those 7 buckets. Further, you’ll notice that almost every one of these posts has a “bad guy” that helps drive angry reactions - either VP Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Sec. Granholm, John Kerry, Greta Thunberg, or the President himself.