Anyone who’s spent various minutes on-line is probably going aware of the seemingly infinite ocean of local weather change denial content material swirling throughout social media. But the huge misinformation maelstrom is basically being churned out by lower than a dozen publishers.

According to a new report printed on Tuesday from The Center For Countering Digital Hate, simply 10 Facebook pages pushed 69% of all local weather denial. Most of them have been—shocker—megaphones of the political far proper.

To conduct the evaluation, the group sifted by means of 6,983 local weather denial articles featured in Facebook posts over the previous yr. Breitbart, the Western Journal, and Newsmax are the highest purveyors of local weather denial. Altogether, the report notes these publishers have a mixed 186 million followers on main social media networks.

In addition to fomenting and amplifying pointless hesitancy round addressing the world’s most urgent downside, these publishers additionally made a good amount of cash. According to the report, the highest 10 publishers of local weather change denial content material acquired 1.1 billion web page visits and raked in $3.6 million in promoting income from Google over the previous six months.

Here’s the total high 10 listing of publishers who unfold probably the most local weather change denial content material in response to the report.

1. Breitbart
2. The Western Journal
3. Newsmax
4. Townhall Media
5. Media Research Center
6. The Washington Times
7. The Federalist Papers
8. The Daily Wire
9. Russian State Media
10. The Patriot Post

The glut of local weather change denial content material comes regardless of a sequence of commitments, nonetheless tepid, by Facebook and different social media websites to supposedly scale back the content material’s attain. In February, for instance, Facebook mentioned it could begin attaching labels to some local weather associated content material and would direct customers to its lackluster Climate Science Information Center. Yet the evaluation discovered only 8% of the preferred posts on Facebook that contained local weather denial content material have been accompanied by labels. In different phrases, the overwhelming majority of this misleading content material is reaching audiences with no context to notice its deceptive. Leaked paperwork from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen present that the corporate’s workers have had vigorous discussions about how one can test denial on the platform. (Or in at the very least one occasion, argued for permitting denial to maintain flowing.)

Other tech giants have additionally tried to constrain local weather denial on their platforms. Earlier this month, Google announced it’ll prohibit advertisements that includes local weather change denial content material and demonetize denial, each on the search engine and YouTube, citing strain from advertisers. Twitter, in the meantime, has just lately taken on a special strategy, opting as an alternative to make authoritative details about local weather science extra accessible in customers’ developments listing search and discover tabs, according to Axios. If profitable, Twitter hopes the strategy will “pre-bunk” local weather denial content material in order that it’s not amplified on the platform.

So far, these efforts have largely fallen quick, some extent not misplaced on advocates and a few scientists. In March, a group of 13 environmentalist teams, together with Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth despatched a letter to Zuckerberg demanding better, extra particular motion about labeling local weather change denial content material.

“Climate change disinformation is spreading rapidly across Facebook’s social media platform, threatening the ability of citizens and policymakers to fight the climate crisis,” the letter reads.