Why is Medium conflating trolls and shills?

People who are paid propagandists are shills, not trolls.

Just Stop Oil targets culturally significant objects to highlight that the viewer’s outrage at direct attacks on those objects is greater than the viewer’s outrage at the same attacks against those objects by the creators of climate change.

If throwing washable paint on Stonehenge pisses you off, you should be even more angry at big oil for progressively destroying the entire planet. Any call for the arrest and immediate punishment of Just Stop Oil members should also match calls for the immediate punishment of big oil execs.

It’s juvenile, but it’s pointed.

I did. I did see a putty-tat!

I wonder where high-fructose corn syrup falls.

You don’t need the comma when you write it this way. The comma in June 12, 2024, is there exactly because it’s the wrong order.

It’s basically “I wrote the date. Oops, forgot the year!”

Computers order it correctly in that format because that’s the correct format. In the same way a computer will order any other correctly formatted numbers in the correct order - and incorrectly formatted numbers in the incorrect order - it shouldn’t be surprising that they order correctly formatted dates in the correct order.

Seminal. Heehee

Before showing falsehood you need to show damages. In the US it’s completely OK to lie about someone as long as it doesn’t cost them money.

IANAL. Probably not.

Defamation needs to show damages and the judge would need to show that somehow those statements materially damaged them.

Public figures also need to meet higher bars for defamation.

AvE is Canadian but they need a similar department too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science