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Once upon a time, it was called gossip.

• selfhoster11 6y ago
  Gossip spread much slower.
  • mfer 6y ago
    Wasn't just gossip. It was propaganda, too. We are in the golden age of propaganda due to the pervasiveness or our communications technology and the alert/addictive nature of the communications technology.
  • brlewis 6y ago
    It probably spread at a similar rate relative to how fast truth spread at the time. Lots of old quotes about falsehood spreading faster than truth: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/