Although obvious, I think it’s worth mentioning plenty of great examples of this even beyond the modern media. For example, “less than 1% of people become addic

Although obvious, I think it’s worth mentioning plenty of great examples of this even beyond the modern media. For example, “less than 1% of people become addicted to OxyContin” (Purdue Pharma) or “AIDS was created by the CIA” (Da Baby, also the KGB), or “Thomas Jefferson had a child with Sally Hemmings” (James Callender). You can likely find similar stories carved into Sumerian tablets somewhere. I do think it’s gotten worse in some areas, but the identification of the issue as a modern product of the Internet echo chamber also seems a bit misleading, as it might cause someone to misidentify the problem as a uniquely modern one that we could fix with changes to rules of publishing platforms alone. I’m not sure that the echo chambers in the modern media are worse than they were in Europe during the Hundred Years’ War, for example.