> I guess most have forgotten that you should not believe everything you see on the internet The article exclusively focuses on the Global South, ie developing

> I guess most have forgotten that you should not believe everything you see on the internet The article exclusively focuses on the Global South, ie developing countries. There are a couple billion people for whom social media, and indeed Internet connectivity, are very new, and there are countries full of these people. It takes a while to develop the memetic antibodies that we as a society developed over time (remember chain emails?). We obviously still deal with excess credulousness, epistemic naivete, and the Internet Age's unfortunate interactions with these weaknesses. But these weaknesses used to be much, much worse in the US and other developed countries. Countries with substantial subpopulations new to the Internet are pitting the immunologically naive against exploits hardened by years of adversarial co-evolution.