Twitter vigilantes fighting climate change deniers - Trolled podcast, BBC World Service

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2023-07-17

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  • I do refer to myself professionally and also on Twitter as Mike Jagger, but my friends and family do call me Mick.

  • Mick Jagger.

  • Not the Rolling Stone singer, but an Australian engineer with more than 20,000 followers on Twitter.

  • In his bio, Mike describes himself as.

  • A climate realist, someone who doesn't perhaps take hook, line and sinker.

  • The message and the agenda of climate alarmism.

  • Scientists have proven beyond reasonable doubt human activity is driving climate change and threatening all life on Earth.

  • But Mike is not convinced.

  • And on Twitter, he found a willing audience among conspiracy theorists, people who think climate change is a scam or that COVID 19 was a hoax.

  • I don't actually just swallow an agenda and a narrative.

  • I keep looking at facts, that's all.

  • Until one day, Mike hit a bit of a snag.

  • On the 14th of April last year, I got banned.

  • At the time, Twitter's rules were clear.

  • If you repeatedly posted false or misleading content about COVID 19, you might get your account suspended.

  • I know the exact tweet.

  • I've got one of these funny memories.

  • Mike had put out a tweet suggesting Covid vaccines were triggering a medical condition that does not exist.

  • True.

  • And they said, no, your account is permanently suspended.