Donald Trump’s gag order on federal science agencies is continuing to spawn a wave of anonymous Twitter accounts, each claiming to speak for a branch of the government. Over the last day, we’ve seen accounts supposedly authored by renegade members of the EPA, the Forest Service, the USDA, and even NASA. The accounts come from different corners of the government, but all claim to represent workers who are risking their livelihoods by tweeting climate change facts, details of apparent gag orders, and criticism of the Trump administration.

There’s reason to believe these accounts may be genuine. The Trump administration’s demands that EPA scientists stop releasing research to the public has not been well received in the academic community,…

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