How it really works nowadays;)
Considering that about 60% of all online traffic are bots, the chance is high that that troll you have been arguing with on social media is one. Some of this bot traffic is fully automatic while others are being paid to spread propaganda and disrupt discussions. This obviously includes malicious spammers and wh8rebots.
A big example of what I'm talking about can be seen on YouTube. Governments in some Western countries are getting worried about low fertility rates so they started putting out videos on this topic. Every one of them attracts the same type of comments telling you that having children is a stupid idea, patriarchal oppression, that children will ruin your life etc. Personally I speak several languages and let me tell you, that the comments are literally the same in any of them. It's obvious that some nefarious agents are simply clogging any discussion on raising fertility in different countries with identical arguments. It can also be observed in Telegram discussions but YouTube is particularly bad lately.
Another example is how the search engine algorithms are getting rigged. If you did a search on vaccine harm pre-Covid, you'd get a variety of vaccine skeptic sites, while now you get countless government reports on how all vaccines are safe and effective. I''m sure if you start paying more attention to it, you'll find other examples as well.
