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Social media has done a lot of good things, but it has also facilitated the rise of professional pot-stirrers: people who take a deliberately provocative and outrageous position to generate attention.
If they were instead limited to the occasional news panel appearance and to newspaper columns, we wouldn't be troubled by any of them. But thanks to social media, their artificial brew of hate and intolerance is influencing millions, and changing our society for the worse.
You know who I mean. I don't have to name names. I'm not going to deliberately give them the oxygen of publicity. And besides they'll be trending on Twitter again soon. They always do.
