Hah, I'm not the only one that brings up this book in this context. The way this is wrought, in the novel, is a savant engineer writes a bot framework that can

Hah, I'm not the only one that brings up this book in this context. The way this is wrought, in the novel, is a savant engineer writes a bot framework that can cheaply and quickly disseminate torrents of misinformation about a provided subject, and then open sources this framework. He basically broke the internet on purpose as a sort of accelerationist move I suppose.