The ‘ninjas’ fighting climate change denial on Twitter – BBC News

They ask me not to reveal their real names or their exact whereabouts.

Climate change denial is not forbidden on Twitter, but some other types of content are – like threats, harassment, or hate speech.

Thousands of hours of slow, painstaking work paid off – or so the “ninjas” like to believe.

Up until that point, the “ninjas” had been keeping watch on his feed, reporting dozens of his tweets.

“I’m not surprised in the slightest,” Mike says.

The “ninjas” share a set of rules laid out in a document called “The Resistor’s Guide to Effective Trollhunting”.

“When I engaged climate change deniers, I noticed some of them got agitated.

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