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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.

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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

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.

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.

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

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