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The trolls became professional opinion havers on Twitter and millions of fools started amplifying their message

How 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.

A lot of random blue checks on Twitter are journalists.

If they're journalists then are they really internet trolls?

Depends.

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.

That 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

Large numbers of journalists and/or pundits are internet trolls

I assumed they were all freelancing.

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