The Internet's loop of action and reaction is worsening

In engineering systems can often be characterised as having feedback - that is, the output feeds somehow back to the input. Active suspension, robotic navigation and amplifiers are all examples of this.

The problem is that these types of systems can become unstable. A classic example is a microphone too near a speaker. The output over-influences the input, resulting in larger output, resulting in a correspondingly amplified input... etc. Quite quickly everything has fallen to bits.

What if the internet is simply providing too much feedback for our system of governance to handle?

Interesting thought. I suspect only time will tell what happens.

Yellow journalism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism ) has been around for a long time. Its rise on the internet should probably have been expected. I don't know how it will be resolved, but until the money doesn't flow to the "first and most" eyeballs I suspect we'll have to put up with it.