(((Social Media))) allowed them to accelerate rapidly. It isolates people while bot farms can manufacture consensus in real time while censors shut down the actual majority opinion. But it, and AI, are a double edged sword in the propaganda war, because they also give complete nobodies like us the ability to fight back in the 5th generation info-war. Theres a reason theyre freaking out over AI so hard, and its not because theyre actually worried about a machine uprising, but because it puts the ability to manufacture false reality in the hands of the masses, which in return will allow the masses to end up questioning if what theyve been fed their entire life is true.