> Not often have horrible people been paid an incentive to trigger responses and emotions in others, at world-scale, and with complete immunity from the consequences.

It is worth pointing out that there have always been horrible and nasty behavior on Twitter, before any monetary incentives. To wit: they had a moderation team! Also, I don’t believe there’s rigorous research that shows the difference we’ve that monetary incentives drives this. My intuition, without data, is that the nasty and horrible behavior is driven more by things other than money:

- power

- vindictiveness

- anger

- fear

- etc.

Not often? The cable TV shows in the US and elsewhere are full of nonstop triggering content. The Brazilian court is being used as a tool to silence dissent there. When you make "hate speech" and "misinformation" crimes, everything that goes against the group in power will be shoehorned into one of those categories. The only speech that needs protection is by definition going to offend or inconvenience someone with the power to shut it down without those protections.