Think of it this way: the establishment is merely not a single source of misinformation anymore. Misinformation was always easy to propagate. I'd say easier, in

Think of it this way: the establishment is merely not a single source of misinformation anymore. Misinformation was always easy to propagate. I'd say easier, in fact. See e.g. Iraq war - 100% disinfo, parroted uniformly and enthusiastically by the entirety of the mainstream press. Except in the past you could create (via mass media controlled by, quite literally, five people) an airtight, completely impenetrable narrative and feed it to the public, and now the public can get both the information, and conflicting disinformation elsewhere. Oops. Bet the CIA did not think of that when they helped create Twitter and Facebook.