image: Fig 2. Absolute number of climate change link shares and reshares in the United States. view more
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As measured through Facebook shares/reshares, attention on climate change flagged during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave in Spring 2020
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256082
Article Title: Large-scale decrease in the social salience of climate change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author Countries: The Netherlands, New Zealand, U.S.A.
Funding: The funders (Facebook & Scie.nz) provided support in the form of salaries for authors (BS & YL) but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Large-scale decrease in the social salience of climate change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Article Publication Date
19-Jan-2022
COI Statement
The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Yuwei Liu is a data scientist for Facebook and Bogdan State is a former employee of Facebook who currently works for Scie.nz. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.