Trolls Are Swarming Young Climate Activists Online

Better title:

Adults are bullying children

Sad state of discourse these days. Whatever happened to having civilized discussions?

Are you from the past?

It would be nice if there was some kind of scoring about the probability that something like this was organic or a coordinated campaign with sockpuppets.

It's also a glaring example of weak points in current law and Twitter specifically. First, Twitter really needs expand its privacy options. Someone should be able to publicly share an opinion without allowing anyone to reply to their timeline or DM them. On the legal point, sending graphic pictures to underaged girls is a sex crime, and underfunded law enforcement is not keeping up given physical crimes and multijurisdictional nature. Interpol or a related entity has to start chasing down criminals that send sexual material to young people. It is plainly child abuse regardless of politics.

Sad to see. Although, honestly, the parents shouldn't have allowed their kids to put themselves in these 'activist' positions to begin with. What did they expect? And also, a 16 year old girl speaking at the UN? Is that a joke?

I fully support protecting the environment but this is child exploitation for political purposes. These movements should be led by scientists, not children. Is it any wonder people are still skeptical?