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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by Jonnax on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:07AM (#23829889)
Words change their meaning. Troll has not meant that in more than a decade.
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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by viridian on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:47AM (#23832583)
But the modern meaning is basically either just "someone I disagree with", "someone I don't like", "someone acting in bad faith", or "someone in the out group". It's a word that means practically nothing now.
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