That's fair - I wasn't trying to make the point that it can't be weaponized. In fact it's quite the opposite. I guess my main point with that quote is that it

That's fair - I wasn't trying to make the point that it can't be weaponized. In fact it's quite the opposite. I guess my main point with that quote is that it amplifies things (sometimes organically viral, sometimes engineered) and then places them all on the same level. So the userbase starts to believe that something that trended on twitter is just as globally important/well known as the genuine world news story that trended beside it, because it's all in one pot. That's dangerous.