[awkwarddaturtle]

It's also a shame that whenever I see comments like this I'm thinking why is a HN user trying to divert attention to a whole different topic?

There is so much agenda driven propaganda on social media now.

[dionian]

hard to think of a better medium for psyops... other than TV/news which is already covered and becoming more and more limited in effectiveness

[awkwarddaturtle]

Yes. From all sides. It's sad thing to witness because my naive young self viewed social media as the promise of free information flow, honest interaction and entertainment. I guess that was wishful thinking.

[oelmekki]

I remember when we thought internet was the new printing invention, and that it will bring direct democracy everywhere :)

But hey, nothing grows at a regular speed and in straight line, this may still happen.

[api]

I think we may be in the "empire strikes back" phase.