As a rule, the people running these accounts chose to remain anonymous, fearing retaliation - but, depending on how they created and use their accounts, they are not necessarily anonymous to Twitter itself, or to anyone Twitter shares data with.Īnonymous speech is firmly protected by the First Amendment and the Supreme Court, and its history in the U.S. In response, self-described government workers created a wave of rogue Twitter accounts that share real facts (not to be confused with “alternative facts,” otherwise known as “lies”) about climate change and science. One of the first things Donald Trump did when he took office was temporarily gag several federal agencies, forbidding them from tweeting.
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