I think future historians will also come to the conclusion that a large factor contributing to the current rise of fascism in Western democracies was a very successful hybrid war effort by Putin’s Russia.

I mean it’s already pretty obvious that European and US fascists have very close ties to Russian agents. Putin is waging a global digital war - combining old propaganda techniques with social media echo chambers - and we’re losing hard right now.

For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_deficit_model

The internet isn’t bad itself.

It’s the fact that bad actors (rich companies, power hungry people, and especially authoritarian states) can hire millions of people and create millions of bots to intentionally spread their narratives on social media. This is immoral, so good actors don’t do it.

No one talks about the problem or acknowledges it. Social Media needs regulation to prevent this, or it will be our undoing.