Was it better when we were manufacturing consent?

I thought we were in some nth generation of the M.C. paradigm. Key feature today is manufacturing dissent, which is still narrative control.

The other day was reading an eye opener on the life of Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee and his (social) friends. So many journalists in US started in military intelligence. Worth digging deep on Ben Bradlee and friends and colleagues.

I don't know if it was better or worse back then, but in any case we can now support to identify manipulative/propagandist attempts (media bias/propaganda trying to influence us) using machine learning:

https://biasscanner.org