Social media platforms (of which I generally totally avoid) are becoming extremely effective in influencing people's views and behaviors. Levels of fear and uncertainty are manipulated regularly through such platforms and their members, individually and collectively--with a bias towards polarizing and hate= fearmongering. The current US 2024 election dynamics show, according to these researchers, that there are several problems of skewing information and even Russian interference in communications and spread of info. These are not conspiratorial researchers. I have posted here there intro. page of a larger document available free on the internet
[PDF] Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 US Election
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