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It definitely is the enabler though. Without social media, propaganda could never have spread as fast. And it also brought together every village idiot. I know of simpleminded people who never uttered a racist word in their lives before. Now all they talk about is how the AfD will save Germany from the brown people. This is literally brainwashing. So I stand by my comment that social media is the cause of all this.
For sure, I even said so.
I hate to break it to you though; I grew up during the Cold War and propaganda was literally everywhere before the invention of the internet. Perhaps you've heard of the Red Scare?
I know it had always been there. But social media has made it so much more efficient. It's hard to compare it with traditional media.
That, I'm afraid, is the nature of technology: it makes everything easier, even the stuff you really wish it didn't.