>You don't think the massive increase in the amount of time people spend reading social media over that period could have had anything to do with it? Invented

>You don't think the massive increase in the amount of time people spend reading social media over that period could have had anything to do with it? Invented long after the problem started. Not even a factor. Another option you might pick up is aggregated news, google news came out in 2002; but some existed before. RSS was invented by netscape in 1999. This likely is the causal relationship. When people can see a news event and literally see the lies from the media for themselves. There's no going back.