Exhausting, yes, but I don't see how it can be blown out of proportion. The existence of social media is definitely undermining democracies, just like all previ

Exhausting, yes, but I don't see how it can be blown out of proportion. The existence of social media is definitely undermining democracies, just like all previous mass propaganda machines, except with a larger and more accessible reach than ever before. There's nothing for researchers to study to reach this conclusion. Have we all forgotten about Cambridge Analytica? As a reminder, they used targetted ads to spread disinformation on social media, the effects of which have surely influenced the status of dozens of "democracies" around the world. It's certainly not the only company in that business, just one that happened to be widely publicized. Social media is not a unique tool in the arsenal of rich megalomaniacs, but to claim it doesn't have a major role in undermining democracies is willfully ignorant.