Internet and social media illiteracy coupled with ignorance as to how hired tech-marketeers manage TRENDS and not knowing how easy it is to do so , is creating trolls out of gullible section of intelligentsia.
In tech-world BOTs are programs which can be controlled remotely and made to perform rogue operations like attacking other servers/computers. In thousand , these BOTs can be simultaneously made to attack servers to crash them. The computers themselves don't know that they are participating in such attacks.
Pol-BOTs are politically active on social media but don't know that they are gullible tools being manipulated remotely. Like internet BOTs, politically susceptible social media activists are used by remote controls without their knowledge to attack political targets.
I have reason to hope that this will not last long as never earlier group-hallucinations have lasted.