> I'm sorry, perhaps I'm bitter because I saw exactly what this was in 2007 And what exactly did you see back in 2007? Because it sounds to me like you are mer

> I'm sorry, perhaps I'm bitter because I saw exactly what this was in 2007 And what exactly did you see back in 2007? Because it sounds to me like you are merely describing politics since the advent of television at the national level in the current U.S. two-party system. Do you really mean to say you saw the same type of fake news campaign spread across social media in 2007 as is described in recent NYT pieces wrt the 2016 election (e.g., troll accounts so widespread that a Facebook lobbyist recognized one as one of his mom's Facebook friends)? If so can we see an archive.org link of what you wrote back then?