I believe that you ignore the scale of the things that are happening. To achieve the same "harm" then, as now, one needed significantly more money, and resource

I believe that you ignore the scale of the things that are happening. To achieve the same "harm" then, as now, one needed significantly more money, and resources than they need today, and it was significantly more obvious. We should also not forget everything that's happening on 4chan (/b/, /x/, /pol/), and the like. Countless trolling that resulted in suicides with zero repercussions, doxxing, incidents like the one that lead us to "we did it reddit", QAnon, and so on. To ignore the scale and claim that it was happening then so nothing changes is dishonest.