There's a difference between:

https://news.ycombinator.com/news - These ones are fairly stationary, and if I recall only change through popularity, please correct my if I do not understand the site's news algorithm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest - These ones are rank by most recently published.

Its trending on all news outlets today (radio tv etc). The status of a story on HN isnt relevant to that point.

Sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying some group paid for bot upvotes on this HN post? Or they only paid for tending on other sites, but HN's upvotes are organic?

And what would be the point of paying for trending on this article? Is there some sort of political gain that could happen by this being shared? Previously you mentioned ad revenue. Usually it would be a losing venture to pay for tending on an article then try to recoup that money via ads on that article.

What specifically are you not clear on what I said? I am not answering the presumptuous questions you stated, if you can identify what specifically you didn't understand from my statements I made, we can continue the conversation.

I don't really understand any of what you said. With that complete lack of understanding, the best I can do is try to guess what you mean, but you consider that type of guessing presumptuous.

If you want some more specific questions here are some:

> Excellent well I can see that this PAID for "TRENDING" (tm) on all platforms works very well.

What thing became trending through payment? Is HN part of "all platforms"? By "works well" it seems you think some goal was accomplished, what goal do you think was accomplished?