Using ISDs tools, researchers were able to map the sources of tweets containing the hashtag, and the relationships between them.
利用ISDs工具,研究人员能够绘制包含该标签的推文来源,以及它们之间的关系。
What we found at that stage was that it was basically just Baker and his allies continually retweeting it to create the impression of there being a lot of concern around this issue, said Mat Hope, a former DeSmog editor.
We were able to show that it was a manufactured controversy, not some authentic insight from somebody with their finger on the countrys pulse. (Steve Baker did not respond to a request for comment.)
In the months that followed, however, disquiet over the net zero transition began ramping up in sections of the UK press initially in outlets such as Spiked Online and GB News, but eventually creeping into the pages of major newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph and the Sun, too.