I think that’s definitely true at any point in human history. But also, wildly insufficient as analysis or solution here. Malevolent people exist, in all classes, of all political persuasions. Morons are real, likewise. Now that a lot of the world is newly-minded to connect with each other and bond over unsourced and unsourceable text, do we want to really arm them with industrial bullshit generators? Calling this stuff ‘safety’ is irksome in the extreme, but far from completely wrong.