There's no reliable means of separating 4chan trolls from the alt-right, gamer, or any other online communites. There's some amount of overlap, it's all ambigu

There's no reliable means of separating 4chan trolls from the alt-right, gamer, or any other online communites. There's some amount of overlap, it's all ambiguous, and that's constantly being exploited by one side or another to further whatever agenda they have. What horrifies me is how utterly incompetent the media is at recognizing trolling. They simply regurgitate whatever gets presented to them by supposed members of "anonymous" or the "alt-right" etc. I'm convinced the majority of this noise is just 4chan nerds trolling the media and watching the results for the lulz. But the media empowers it all to have actual consequences in reality. Quality of journalism has gone completely down the tubes. And I don't mean in the "fake news" fabricated by journalists sense, I mean in their plain incompetence and being used as puppets to validate the nonsense they report on by ... reporting everything as-given. Nothing seems to be investigated correctly prior to reporting it anymore.