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That doesn't make the news though.
We, through naivety and greed, made the internet this way. It's not gonna get better any time soon, now that politics, social media and news keep feeding from themselves in a spiral of polarisation.
I am not familiar with that part of the world, but the relative neighbour of Bangladesh, Myanmar, has seen massive genocide and devastation thanks to hate campaigns that spread like wildfire thanks to Facebook a few years ago, while the fat cats in Silicon Valley in their ivory towers were totally oblivious first, and incapable later of dealing with it, while tens of thousand died and hundred of thousands fled as refugees.
Fascism is lives on xenophobia, ignorance, and inequality. It is aided by being able to control the flow of information and manipulate people's emotions.
The last several decades of attacking wealth redistribution has created the inequality, and what we've built with social media is essentially a Fascism toolkit. AI advancements are getting better and better about keeping people angry and irrational. All it takes is the backing of several smart, sociopathic wealthy people and the right figurehead; most people are more amoral than they'd admit and will go with the flow.
This isn't true on the face of it. Redistribution wouldn't be on the populist agenda if inequality didn't exist. It's like saying that anti-vax people created the disease in the first place.
you mean another one. the church has been in charge for large chunk of history.