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Twitter accounts form army in a digital resistance against Trump
President Trump's recent efforts to silence scientists on social media by imposing a gag order on administrations like the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA,) have already started to backfire.
While Trump may have temporarily quieted several official accounts, his actions have inspired a digital rebellion across Twitter, and an army of mysterious accounts in the science, education, security communities and more — identifying as "resistance teams" — are banding together to fight for the right to share factual information.
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