They may have been doing that forever but that doesn't change anything about my argument. They just were not as popular as they are these days which makes them

They may have been doing that forever but that doesn't change anything about my argument. They just were not as popular as they are these days which makes them much more newsworthy and which is why we're seeing constant new articles about them now about issues that have been there for a long time but which were not newsworthy a few months ago. Edit: no, I'm not defending them. I just explain why they are all over the news these days.