Something I struggle to understand is why this is considered a recent phenomenon. All of the tools required to run disinformation campaigns have existed for at

Something I struggle to understand is why this is considered a recent phenomenon. All of the tools required to run disinformation campaigns have existed for at least the last two decades and social media was easily mature enough by the late ‘00s early ‘10s. Are we really at such a different place or is this something we’ve quietly ignored until now?