From a fine publication, The Modern Farmer, an intriguing exposé!
Twitter, specifically, has been a source of contention. It all started when the official National Park Service account was asked to stop tweeting after it shared photos that compared the crowd size of Trump's inauguration to the crowd size of Obama's inauguration in 2009. Then the official Badlands National Park Twitter went rogue and started tweeting facts about climate change. The tweets were later removed and blamed on "a former employee who was not authorized to use the park's account."
Since those tweets were removed, over 40 "alt" or "rogue" Twitter accounts have sprouted up to fill in for many agencies and National Parks. Some of them already have a pretty big following—currently, AltUSNatParkService has more than 1.27 million followers. So far we're seeing climate facts, inspirational quotes about the environment, cute photos of animals, and a lot of snark (this is Twitter, after all).
TFA includes the a few of the more interesting ones, including:
Being Twitter, some of these seem to have difficulty staying on-topic and seem to think that anything is fair game.
(Score: 2, Troll) by bzipitidoo on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:22AM (3 children)
ftfy.
Alt.gov is a fantastic idea. They are opposed to the lying, propaganda, and corruption that currently infests top US leadership, and fight back with facts. They actually have respect for science. They have inside access to government data and firsthand knowledge of any attempted censorship, so their information ought to be a bit better than Joe Citizen's.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:44AM (2 children)
"They are opposed to the lying, propaganda, and corruption that currently infests top US leadership," but they were fine with the lying, propaganda, and corruption of the previous administration. Got it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @08:50PM (1 child)
There was no Alt-gov during the previous admin. I think you lost it, Runaway, and in did not get it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 05 2018, @10:54PM
With the previous administration, there were the birthers. With this administration, we have no birthers, but we have alt-everything-under-the-sun. Fruitcakes, all of you.