I think the big difference now is that it's much easier to do centralized propaganda at scale and Facebook and others help distributing it. There always has bee

I think the big difference now is that it's much easier to do centralized propaganda at scale and Facebook and others help distributing it. There always has been manipulation but we are in the process of building up the perfect surveillance and propaganda machines that are actually affordable. The Nazis and Stalin would have been happy to have the current tools.