[BitwiseFool]

The link included in the person you responded to says: "About half the journalists here are freelancers, who may lack the institutional support of a newsroom and the financial resources for a potentially expensive legal defense."

Journalist isn't a protected title. And I wonder how many activists don the "Journalist" label at protests.

[vrperson]

I have heard it is a common strategy among activists now, but that was a claim made by their "opponents", so not sure how prevalent it is.