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Wonderland: Truth, lies, statistics and alternate facts

Wonderland: Truth, lies, statistics and alternate facts | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.theprcoach.com - January 27, 2017 10:46 AM

What we’ve got here is [NOT] a failure to communicate” to slightly alter the famous line from the movie Cool Hand Luke.


That line best describes public response to the Trump inauguration, the massive DC and national Women’s March, and the public and social media response to the first six days of the new administration.


The Trump campaign and transition teams, and the new White House advisors all pride themselves on their social media savvy. Led by the newly sworn-in POTUS and Twitter-in-Chief, social media is now alive with the sound of truth, lies, statistics and “alternate facts.”


And the new administration is scrambling to respond....

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Twitter is filled with competing truths, lies and “alternate facts.” More than 2.5 million Twitter followers have pledged to support Alt-Gov accounts and a real movement is born.

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loancount's comment, January 28, 2017 5:10 AM
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Department of Agriculture sticks it to Donald Trump with unofficial USDA account on Twitter

Department of Agriculture sticks it to Donald Trump with unofficial USDA account on Twitter | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.palmerreport.com - January 26, 2017 3:02 PM

You can count the Department of Agriculture as the latest federal agency under attack from Donald Trump who is now actively rebelling against him. After Trump punished the National Park Service for tweeting about his inauguration crowd size, and the Badlands was forced to delete its tweets about climate change, these agencies have begun sticking it to Trump by rolling out secondary non-government Twitter accounts that he can’t control. Lo and behold, the unofficial USDA Twitter account.

The @AltUSDA account on Twitter has been in existence for less than a day but already has tens of thousands of followers, and it’s been posting helpful tweets along the lines of “Read the USDA Climate Change Solutions page while you still can” along with a link to an article on the usda.gov website which, for the moment at least, is still visible. It’s expected that the Trump administration will forcibly remove such information in order to pretend that climate change isn’t real. But @AltUSDA is going further....

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More Resist actions as USDA government employees put up an unofficial Twitter account. They already have more than 67.400 followers.You can support the efforts to make sure "alternate facts" and lies are not presented on US government websites by following @AltUSDA.

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U.S. government scientists go 'rogue' in defiance of Trump

U.S. government scientists go 'rogue' in defiance of Trump | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.reuters.com - January 26, 2017 3:23 PM

Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle federal climate change research and other science.

Seizing on Trump's favorite mode of discourse, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and other bureaus have privately launched Twitter accounts - borrowing names and logos of their agencies - to protest restrictions they view as censorship and provide unfettered platforms for information the new administration has curtailed....

 

Employees at the EPA and the departments of Interior, Agriculture and Health and Human Services have since confirmed seeing notices from the new administration either instructing them to remove web pages or limit how they communicate to the public, including through social media....

 

Within hours, unofficial "resistance" or "rogue" Twitter accounts began sprouting up, emblazoned with the government logos of the agencies where they worked, the list growing to at least 14 such sites by Wednesday afternoon....

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With 14 "Alternate" government sites and hundreds of thousands of new followers, US government employees are resisting efforts by the Trump administration to muzzle communications with the public or to remove communications the White House doesn't like, factual or not. You can #resist "alternate facts" in support truth in government by following any of these Alt sites.

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