They found a roundabout way by reporting denialists for other infringements. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - For years, a band of science-loving “troll hunters” hounded climate change deniers off Twitter – but Mr Elon Musk’s takeover has upended their efforts, with many ousted accounts back, pushing fresh disinformation.
“If they’re saying something racist or offensive or misogynist, we can get them kicked off,” one Germany-based TNT member, a 45-year-old scientist who asked to be identified as Tom, told AFP in a Zoom interview. “We make sure that we’re as under the radar as possible... to get deniers and ‘sceptics’ and just generally nasty people reported on Twitter,” a Canada-based member named Peter told AFP.
Twitter’s press office and members of its sustainability team who were laid off after the takeover declined to comment. “We got some fairly big accounts removed” but many came back “when Elon Musk kind of opened the floodgates again,” said Tom.
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