> "dangerous" means that a malicious agent can systematically manipulate the public via propaganda a la 20th century Stalin You don't need total control to suc

> "dangerous" means that a malicious agent can systematically manipulate the public via propaganda a la 20th century Stalin You don't need total control to succeed. The same way that early VOIP calls didn't need perfect sound to be better than normal dial up. All you need is an economic, efficiency, quality or quantity advantage to create a new weapon/tool. India is facing a spate of lynchings over child kidnappings - driven by whatsapp forwards that combine videos from brutal mexican gang killings of children, pakistani safety warnings among others. I've seen them, they are being disseminated to people who have never had to harden themselves to the internet or behavior on the net. (There are many people who don't have knowledge of photoshop, and getting the knowledge to them is Hard. Even getting the knowledge to them can be used to weaken Facts instead of propaganda.) As a result villagers have lynched strangers, mental handicapped people, widows and anyone they suspect of kidnapping or potentially harming children. And I have NO idea, why or who is cutting up and making these videos to share on whatsapp. Evil manipulators, people who are doing it for laughs, well intentioned but misguided good samaritans? As a result of such forwards, whatsapp rolled out a limit on how many times a message can be forwarded - a feature they have pushed worldwide recently. We don't need perfection to do damage, we need efficiency. We already have other systems which can make up the difference in results.