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Rather than hanging their neighbors for witchcraft, instead they moan about conspiracy theories involving QAnon or Russia.

On balance, the free dissemination of ideas seems to have helped truth spread more easily. Lies didn't have any problem spreading before we had electricity. Unless you think that we should still be basing our entire culture around the worship of gods carved from stone and wood?

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That too will revert.

In many countries, the power of social media gives a platform for superstition and mystical thinking to expand.

In less developed nations, where religion and superstition are fundamental parts of the power structure, they travel even faster than facts, and those who argue for reason are silenced (Death of rationalists in India for example).

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