There's a more fundamental problem you're hitting on. Somehow we have shifted from responding to rationality to responding to noise. Granted it's always been th

There's a more fundamental problem you're hitting on. Somehow we have shifted from responding to rationality to responding to noise. Granted it's always been the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, but now you have the cow squeaking for oil. That was one awkward metaphor... What I mean is that in times past getting involved in issues took a decent amount of effort and time. You had to really care about an issue to become active with it. Now the internet provides a 0 effort means for people to chip in with their 2 cents. And so there's a lot of noise that says absolutely nothing, even without bots. And the worst part is that companies and individuals are increasingly treating the noise as the signal, and that's counter productive.