"A senior News Corp Australia executive has defended the company's platforming of climate science deniers, saying its news outlets were not part of a denial machine spreading misinformation. News Corp Australia's executive chair, Michael Miller, told a Senate inquiry into climate and energy misinformation there was no coordination across the organisation's news outlets to feature voices sceptical of climate action or Australia's current goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions."
"This country has a great democracy and healthy debate and to answer your question there are people with differing opinions to your own but that doesn't mean they can't have a voice. Miller said the company was expressing a range of views and to say that we platform climate deniers, I would need more detail, but we need to be able to have a debate in this country and that is what we do."
Michael Miller, executive chair of News Corp Australia, told a Senate inquiry there was no coordination across the company's news outlets to feature voices sceptical of climate action or the net zero goal. Miller defended platforming climate sceptics as part of democratic debate and argued differing opinions should be heard rather than censored. He rejected claims that News Corp formed part of a climate denial machine, describing the organisation as part of a debate machine. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue named Sky News Australia a global hub for climate misinformation in 2022, a finding News Corp rejected.
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