trawl

The committee cast a wide net, using a programming tool to trawl more than 32,000 project descriptions for 699 keywords and phrases that they identified as linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

"But most of the time it's people anchoring where they shouldn't and fishing trawlers sometimes scrape along the seabed, so typically we would see scars from trawling."

A dozen or so staff are trawling so-called open source data – social media and the like – for intelligence of plots emerging.

In the UK some organisations – including the BBC – have chosen to block AI developers from trawling their online content for training purposes.

The witch hunters track down all female employees at the company in question, and trawl their social media accounts, searching for any evidence of feminism.