There's people who still conduct themselves thus on a round-the-clock basis, and there's many billionaires who claim that they want #technology to be a democratizing force, enabling the international Conversation™ and all that. They politicized the #Internet (by inviting politicians to advertise there, chiefly) and want it to stay that way (although they themselves claim to be apolitical and devoted to freedom of speech) and they say this is a good thing: it's good that the marginalized should forever be locked in "debate" with the powerful.
So, early 1990s "debate me" culture from Usenet still rules corporate #socialmedia. There's still people talking like those "skeptics" and "debunkers" I used to hang out with in high school and then Caltech.