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The trolls became professional opinion havers on Twitter and millions of fools started amplifying their message
by redisman 5y ago
The trolls became professional opinion havers on Twitter and millions of fools started amplifying their message
- wnevets 5y agoHow do professional opinion havers on Twitter make a living? Normally "influencers" get paid to feature products/services on their social media or YouTube adverts, I don't see that happening with these trolls. Someone must be funding them.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoI assumed they were all freelancing.
- TheTester 5y agousually "journalism" An example of this was gamergate were a lot of people that nobody cared about started spouting unhinged opinions with the clear intention of getting hateengagement from gamers, as a result they could cry and take money from progressives for their "projects" and also get nice positions in places like Kotaku because they knew how to get those hate clicks, just like vice. Turns out a lot of modern journalism consists on writing clickbait that gets engagement so a lot of those trolls just had to do the same and add some writing to pretend they actually care about issues
- sickofparadox 5y agoA lot of random blue checks on Twitter are journalists.
- wnevets 5y agoIf they're journalists then are they really internet trolls?
- whimsicalism 5y agoLarge numbers of journalists and/or pundits are internet trolls
- bluefirebrand 5y agoDepends. I'd say that Clickbait is an evolution of internet trolling, chasing engagement with outrageous claims. So in that regard, yes absolutely many online journalists are internet trolls.
- wnevets 5y agoThat doesn't sound like what the parent comment [1] was talking about. There are some fairly obvious differences between people post political garbage on social media all day and those who are looking to drive traffic to their website that serves ads. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27587768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27587768