A Jan. 31 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes an image of climate activist Greta Thunberg speaking into a microphone.
"Greta Thunberg reveals climate change is a hoax: 'It's all about the money and controlling people,'" the post reads.
Similar iterations of the post accumulated thousands of likes.
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There is no record of Thunberg, a climate activist, saying that climate change is a hoax. The post presents no evidence to back up this claim.
Thunberg's climate activism is well-documented.
She began conducting skolstrejk för klimatet or "school strikes for climate" when she was 15. On Feb. 3, she posted that it was the 233rd week of her climate strikes.
There is no record of Thunberg saying climate change is made up. And the posts making the claim offered no evidence to support it.
In 2021, a video of her purportedly saying that climate change is a hoax went viral, but several news outlets determined the video was fabricated.
There is copious proof that climate change is real, including increasing global temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing Antarctic ice sheets.
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