If you think Big Oil is trying to manipulate you on social media—you’re right

New research highlights companies’ ‘aligned and coordinated’ use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions.

To the extent that X ever was the “public square” of the internet, it’s clearly no longer such a place. The platform—known as Twitter until it was rechristened in 2023 by Elon Musk—has become an echo chamber for extremist conspiracy theories and hate speech—or, depending on what you’re looking for, a porn site.