There might be a huge wave of people just ignoring online news and deleting social media(ie. disconnecting). That could very well be the end state for many people. In the above example, if the tweet authors had restricted their account visibility to people only they know, then possibly the articles would never have been written. If enough people get burned out they might just walk away.

Ironically the white female actress who plays the assassin in the film: Mary Elizabeth Winstead was herself a victim of massive online targeting and harassment.

She had already once deleted her public accounts in protest after the famous iCloud hacks in the early 10s because people were ogling her private nude photos and then harassing her about it after she scolded "the internet". She came back a few years later only to delete everything all over again in 2017 when she got non stop barrage after she went through a bad divorce. Its tough for actors who are in the business of selling themselves to just walk away from all public social media.

I think people who weren't into tech and who came of age before the internet became mainstream might be the first people to disconnect from this social media nonsense. She was early 80s and homeschooled to focus all her waking moments on becoming an actress. Gen-Z/Alpha might never disconnect. Have they ever known anything different? It will be interesting to see what happens.

Except, one person telling someone else "I don't like <thing>" and other people responding with "Hey yeah I don't like <thing> too!" is literally how it has worked forever, even before computers. Newspapers have been running "<THING> BAD" or "<THING> GOOD" headlines with no or weak backing for literal centuries.

What about twitter makes this situation special?