These things are real, people.

Being a financial firm that fights climate change isn't always easy for us on Twitter. We do attract these automated (or sometimes manually) run misinformation accounts and take pride in calling them out & reporting them. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis
Here are some of the things we look out for when identifying accounts whose sole purpose is to spread misinformation.

- Account age is usually < 3 months

- They use GIFs of people laughing as an intimidation tactic

- The American flag appears somewhere in their pfp / cover
-They like their own posts using accounts they run themselves.

-If the account age exceeds 5 years, there is a large gap of inactivity, likely because the account was purchased.

-They have used the words "propaganda" or "bot" in tweets *prior* to being called out.
- Written mistakes are sometimes atypical to native English speakers.

- They ‘piggyback’ off of successful political hashtags, such as #MAGA or #KAG

- There is always a unique excuse as to why their account is only a few months old.
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