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The internet and social media have given rise to paid professional influencer base that is desperate to manufacture controversial and inflammatory topics for content that produces hits for their social media sites to generate fast income.

One good viral video can make them $20,000 in a matter of weeks so they jump on anything that they can use to hype as a pretext to drive media coverage.

A lot of people are making a lot of money producing social media content to stir people up and make them angry to drive interest in their social media sites.

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“A lot of people are making a lot of money producing social media content to stir people up and make them angry to drive interest in their social media sites.”

Good points—but that is just the beginning of the story.

Everything the administration does is put under an intense microscope.

That gives much less room for error.

[Aria]

I go to The Conservative Treehouse and there are a ton of new names making posts about how they were MAGA but this has ruined it for them. Yeah, right.

This reminds me of Bonfire of the Vanities where a mob creates misery out of nothing while those leading the hysteria all have a personal gain angle.