The Age of Stupidity
How Trolling Rose From Sad Basements to the Heights of Power (and Set Fire to the World)
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12 min readDec 10, 2018
As I reflect on 2018, a thought keeps occurring to me. History will probably regard this as the age of the troll. Not just this year — maybe this whole decade. It was a time when the world got trolled, hard — and so trolls rose to power, when they shouldn’t have, and by the time…