Twitter suspends users after The Guardian reports they’re bots spreading climate misinformation

LaCorte News ^ | 2/24/2020 | Penka Arsova

[Zenyatta]

Twitter has locked the accounts of two users with more than 60,000 collective followers after The Guardian reported they could be bots designed to push misinformation about climate change.

The Guardian's story, penned by Oliver Milman, centers on an unpublished draft study, which hasn't been peer-reviewed, but claims that a quarter of all tweets about climate come from bots. It then cited a tool called Botometer, to identify Twitter users @sh_irredeemable and @petefrt as likely bots.

[Rocky]

People promoting the climate change scare are just babies. Unfortunately, these babies have the power to silence the adults. Our world is upside down.

[Da Coyote]

Oh, the Guardian.

So, they don’t any real science goin’ on out there. Only pseudo science approved by the “people’s paper”.

[kiryandil]

My account gets identified as "a bot" by all the tools.

But yet I'm not...

[LowOiL]

Article is saying those that deny the green scare are using the bots but those that are legit are the true twitter folks... Not sure I believe it word it says... I would suggest quite the opposite.

[JayGalt]

Me too. I think the tools are designed to empower Leftists to drown out people who make difficult to dispute points.

What I want to understand is why Twitter has me liking dozens of people & things I have no interest in, have never looked at & in most cases things I actively dislike. I postulate that they are markers to track conservatives, either only the # of likes count or the subjects/people are coded ie trump supporters are marked as liking American Football or Bashaud Breeland (whoever that is). Those are two of my latest marked as interest by Twitter.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Anybody who disagrees with us is a bot.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Why not create a bot that simply sends/responds:

“The science is settled. A consensus of scientists agree that, biologically, there are only male and female. Everyone who disagrees is a science denier.”

[cgbg]

Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it.

Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…

Jonathan Swift

[Boogieman]

It’s okay, comrade, you are among friends. We are all Russian troll bots here.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

And a Nazi.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And a racist.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[G Larry]

If the people lying about “climate change” were banned from Twitter, Twitter would go bankrupt.

[BenLurkin]

But bots spreading supposedly non-mis-information are okay?

[glasseye]

If I had a nickle for every time I have been called a ‘Russian’ or a ‘bot’ I could buy...a cup of coffee, maybe even a latte.

[NativeSon]

All your bots, are belong to us.

[MAGAthon]

lesson: don’t upset the ultra-gloBULL warming zealots at The Guardian

[Rocky]

Great quote from Jonathan Swift. Thanks.

[kiryandil]

Da, pravda!