> I love to bash social media as much as anybody, but, how different is this from the hoaxes, crazes and hysterias that society went through before social media

> I love to bash social media as much as anybody, but, how different is this from the hoaxes, crazes and hysterias that society went through before social media was ever a thing? It's always the same answer when the question is "what the difference between X on internet vs X before internet"... the speed and scale of it. You wouldn't argue that a nuke is just like a handgun, well it's the same here