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A few thoughts just bubbled up while reading this.

1. Everyone is potentially a journalist. Smartphone & social media = capture & comment.

2. Everyone is potentially a celebrity. Virality = celebrity.

3. Everyone is potentially a publisher. Share, post, retweet = publish.

4. Almost no one is (cares to be) an editor.

It seems to me that though the obvious impact of these is exactly what you'd expect (a permanent social shit-stain), the times they are-a-changing. Belief is no longer a matter of truthiness but almost a lifestyle/fashion choice. People are learning to tune-out whatever it is they consider fake-news. I suspect that the amplified impact of modern "shame storms" will be discounted by the levels of latent disbelief held by people.

i.e. people could (soon) care less.

Maybe?

EDITED: fixed line-break formatting. Why do I keep falling for the same thing?