Social media seems to drag everything down to the lowest common denominator. The only barrier of entry to express your opinion is to register on Twitter, which is not a barrier of entry.

In the past, one had to be published in a magazine, a paper, or show up on TV - not an easy task, just to say something.

Then we had blogs, which was a vast improvement in giving people voice, but at the same time a very good center ground. Setting up a blog, and then writing an entry is not that enjoyable. You need to really have something to say to go cross that bridge.

Now, however, you just open up your app and go "LOLZ LOLZ STUPID LIBS R SO TRIGGERED MAGA". Done.

Social media is where social conscience goes to die, so yes, I believe it.

There is a very good reason why the tornado of lies we hear from the VERY top of our government, and in fact, governments, is because social media brought down the attention span to zero. It's not that they became better liars - people just no longer critically process information, and move on to the next thing.