Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges
Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges
Scientists suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter for alternative social networks as hostile climate-change denialism surges on the platform following Elon Musk's takeover.
EDIT: I didn't notice in the original post, the article is from 2023
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19707239
Researchers have documented an explosion of hate and misinformation on Twitter since the Tesla billionaire took over in October 2022 -- and now experts say communicating about climate science on the social network on which many of them rely is getting harder.
Policies aimed at curbing the deadly effects of climate change are accelerating, prompting a rise in what experts identify as organised resistance by opponents of climate reform.
Peter Gleick, a climate and water specialist with nearly 99,000 followers, announced on May 21 he would no longer post on the platform because it was amplifying racism and sexism.
While he is accustomed to "offensive, personal, ad hominem attacks, up to and including direct physical threats", he told AFP, "in the past few months, since the takeover and changes at Twitter, the amount, vituperativeness, and intensity of abuse has skyrocketed".
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Ever since Nitter died I haven't paid any attention to anything on musks' little fiefdom at all.
I wish the political economics guys would move... I really miss Tim Sahay/70sbachchan & Mark Blyth.
Nitter died? I've been using it days ago. It's not as before the Twitter's API restrictions, tho, because it started to using data scrapping to fetch Twitter profiles and posts.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
It appears to have ceased development. AFAIK it still works if hooked into a "valid" user account, but since I don't have one and am increasingly less likely to consider that path, it's a moot point.