The anonymous collective Team Ninja Trollhunters (T.N.T.), which currently has only 25 members worldwide, has achieved the suspension of around 600 accounts on Twitter who encouraged and promoted the disinformation about him climate changewith the general argument that this is not real and that humans are not causing it.
With a mission as important as the pollutant reduction all over the world before heating overall, the two leaders of T.N.T.one German and one Canadian, both anonymous Due to the number of threats they receive daily, they decided to fight these “trolls” that discredit studies scientists and other evidence on the urgency to reduce polluting emissions on the planet.
Through one of his Twitter accounts, @ScienceNotDogma, T.N.T. seeks to combat this misinformation because the regulations of this social network do not pay as much attention to negative speeches like these that, despite not being about hate, harassment, threats, racism, misogyny, violence, etc., do become counterproductive in the search for the reduction of the global pollution.
Always in a friendly way and with links to articles scientists backedthe members of the T.N.T. they respond to the tweets of these “deniers“so that their followers are the ones who see and are encouraged to visit these links that refute the lies that these spread”trolls”, and they also ensure that an important element is the speed with which they should respond to these publications, since this helps for dissemination within Twitter.
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Since the acquisition of Twitter by the tycoon Elon Muskthe group suffered an enormous setback, since with its arrival, thousands of the accounts that they had been suspended for various reasons were resetso that a third of the members “threw in the towel”, according to what one of the group’s leaders told the BBC, although a certain part of the ex-members also decided to leave due to the constant threats they received, including death threats.
“depressing“was the adjective used by the members of the T.N.T. to refer to the new policies so permissible of TwitterHowever, they affirm that they will continue to do their work in the fight against disinformation since, during the pandemicalso they counteracted much of the false information circulating about the Covid-19.
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