Am I crazy or could it be read that the money is being more or less extorted from the payer?
"His Nolan guest analysis showed nationalist views are represented 6% of the time while unionist views get 65% of the airtime. "
I suppose saying such things in North Ireland is like criticizing the Chechen President Kadyrov in Russia - you get very specific people visiting you and "explaining" to you that you have to apologize, and you do happily apologize publicly after that, very similar like the supposed "troll" did here.
One can also notice how all the wording around that settlement is all about threats to any future "trolls", and with the "personal security" words present in the context the message is hardly can be made more clear.