Greta Thunberg in Stockholm, January 3, 2020. - Claudio BRESCIANI / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP

  • According to several Internet users, a Facebook bug would have revealed the "duplicity" shown by Greta Thunberg on the social network.
  • Since they discovered that some of his posts were posted by two other people (including his father), they accuse him of not being the source of his publications.
  • The environmental protection activist defended herself, delivering her explanations on the subject, just like one of the Internet users intervening on her page.

"Obviously, Greta Thunberg is POWDER WITH EYES ...", "She may not know how to read ..." On social networks, detractors of the 17-year-old Swedish activist committed to the protection of the 'environment are having a great time since a "revelation" around its Facebook page to 2.7 million subscribers, relayed in recent days.

In particular by the “Collective of climato-realists”, which affirms, screenshots in support: “Thanks to a security breach we had a brief access to the history of publications [Facebook] by Greta Thunberg. It appears that the FB “posts” of this unfortunate puppet in the hands of extremist activists are actually written by her father and a coterie of activists including a national from India working at the UN climate secretariat named Adarsh. Prathap. "

"Remember that this unfortunate child who suffers from an autism spectrum disorder - she left school at the age of 16 - is considered a kind of Messiah by the international environmental movement. To think about, "concludes this text illustrated with two screenshots showing that two recent Greta Thunberg Facebook posts - from December and January - were published respectively by" Adarsh ​​Prathap "and by" Svante Thunberg "(the father of the advocate).

This post uses the same elements published three days earlier by an English-speaking Twitter account. And several media did not fail to take up this information, like Current Values in an article claiming that "the messages posted by Greta Thunberg [on Facebook] are written by her father".

A bug in #Facebook allowed people to see who runs FB pages. # 4Chan managed to find out who actually writes the words for @ GretaThunberg's #FB page ...

Hint: It isn't a 16 year old. # FBExposed #Truth #ClimateChange #ClimateHoax pic.twitter.com/BjHWRYDZqI

- ExtinctionClock (@ExtinctionClock) January 11, 2020

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As “Wired” related, a Facebook bug affecting the pages did allow internet users, at the beginning of January, to temporarily see which Facebook accounts were in charge of their management, including on the - certified - page of Greta Thunberg.

Faced with the many reactions caused by the discovery of the role played by the accounts "Svante Thunberg" and "Adarsh ​​Prathap" on her page, the activist split an explanation in a post published on January 11: "All texts published on my Facebook page were of course written by myself, like everything else. "

"Since last spring, I only use Facebook to republish what I write on my Twitter and Instagram accounts. Since I decided not to be on Facebook personally (I tried at the beginning but I felt it was not for me), I use my father Svantes account to republish content, since an account is required to moderate a Facebook page. "

The regulation of the social network indeed requires "to have a profile reflecting [his] true identity [...] to manage a page".

“The rest of the content shared on Facebook is taken from Twitter and Instagram by the person who created the Facebook page Greta Thunberg long before I knew it existed. His name is Adarsh ​​Prathap and he lives in India. Since many people originally thought it was my official Facebook page, I asked him if I could co-manage it and he agreed. "Continued the activist.

"She is the one who writes all the content!" "

In fact, if certain posts were published by one of the two accounts, this does not necessarily mean that they were not written by Greta Thunberg herself, but simply relayed on Facebook by her father or by Adarsh ​​Prathap.

If he did not respond to requests from 20 Minutes before the publication of this article, he stated in particular from January 11, in response to the tweet revealing this alleged deception: "Why [disseminate] this intoxication? Greta is my friend and I just help her with some "reposts". She is the one who writes all the content! "

He who presents himself on his Facebook account as a “delegate” for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and on Twitter as a “climate crisis activist”, won a prize at COP23 , in 2017, while still a student, for his documentary on Indian mangroves, as reported at the time "The Third Pole".

The first profile photo adopted by the Facebook page Greta Thunberg, on December 7, 2018. - screenshot / Facebook

As for the Facebook page in question, it adopted, from its creation, on December 7, 2018, a photo of Greta Thunberg, and started by sharing external publications relaying news related to the young activist, without publishing texts supposed to be signed on his part. But this change towards a "personal" communication quickly took place, as shown for example by this post of December 13 relating to his return from COP24, identical to a message originally published on Twitter less than an hour before.

Now I'm on my way home from Katowice and COP24. Thank you @UNFCCC for inviting me. Now we travel through the night, so I'll hopefully be in time for the climate strike in Malmö tomorrow morning at 8 am. # Klimatstrejk #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture # cop24 # schoolstrike4climate pic.twitter.com/lE3IKw0v48

- Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 13, 2018

In addition, the "Transparency of the page" tab shows that it has never changed its name since its creation, that it has therefore always been called "Greta Thunberg" and has not been merged with another page.

As Facebook recalls, a verified page, like that of Greta Thunberg, can have a page owner added to it even if it was not the original creator: “A confirmed page owner is a business or a organization validated by Facebook's corporate verification process and whose manager has claimed ownership of the page. "

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