Someone’s Paying To Harass Twitter Employees — Is It Elon Musk?

Putting the “hostile” in “hostile takeover”.

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According to Axios, professional political trolling is a thriving underground business around the world. Evidence of this shadowy cottage industry is all around us, with one study showing that 30 governments worldwide (out of 65 reviewed) had paid keyboard armies “to spread propaganda and attack critics.”

“It has all become an enterprise,” said Yvonne Chua, a journalism professor at the University of the Philippines who has extensively researched misinformation on the Internet.