How to Run a Rogue Government Twitter Account With an Anonymous Email Address and a Burner Phone

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> One of the first things Donald Trump did when he took office was 
> temporarily gag several federal agencies, forbidding them from tweeting.
>
> In response, self-described government workers created a wave of rogue 
> Twitter accounts that share real facts (not to be confused with 
> “alternative facts,” otherwise known as “lies”) about climate change 
> and science. As a rule, the people running these accounts chose to 
> remain anonymous, fearing retaliation — but, depending on how they 
> created and use their accounts, they are not necessarily anonymous to 
> Twitter itself, or to anyone Twitter shares data with.
>
> Anonymous speech is firmly protected by the First Amendment and the 
> Supreme Court, and its history in the U.S. dates to the Federalist 
> Papers, written in 1787 and 1788 under the pseudonym Publius by three 
> of the founding fathers.
>
> But the technical ability for people to remain anonymous on today’s 
> internet, where every scrap of data is meticulously tracked, is an 
> entirely different issue. The FBI, a domestic intelligence agency that 
> claims the power to spy on anyone based on suspicions that don’t come 
> close to probable cause, has a long, dark history of violating the 
> rights of Americans. And now it reports directly to President Trump, 
> who is a petty, revenge-obsessed authoritarian with utter disrespect 
> for the courts and the rule of law.
>
> In this environment, how easy is it to create and maintain a Twitter 
> account while preserving your anonymity — even from Twitter and any 
> law enforcement agency that may request its records? I tried to find 
> out, and documented all my steps. There are different ways to 
> accomplish this. If you plan on following these steps you should make 
> sure you understand the purpose of them, in case you need to 
> improvise. I also can’t guarantee that these techniques will protect 
> your anonymity — there are countless ways that things can go wrong, 
> many of them social rather than technical. But I hope you’ll at least 
> have a fighting chance at keeping your real identity private.
>
> For this exercise, I decided to pick a highly controversial political 
> topic: Facts. I believe that what we know about reality is based on 
> evidence that can be objectively observed. Thus, I created the 
> completely anonymous (until publishing this article, of course) 
> Twitter account @FactsNotAlt.
>
> Here’s how I did it.
>
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https://theintercept.com/2017/02/20/how-to-run-a-rogue-government-twitter-account-with-an-anonymous-email-address-and-a-burner-phone/