[vintermann]

Surely, to cause people to be angry and misinformed is bad whether it's part of the end goal or just for money through clicks.

I'd say it was worse a couple of years ago, though. It's as if there were a generation of young men and women in journalism who had grown up on Something Awful and 4chan, and whose main marketable skill were farming negative attention online. The craze for hiring that sort as "social media managers" have died off a little.