Social media. It wasn’t until very recently that people started to realize just how harmful it actually is.

Less social media IMO, more the weaponization of techniques first researched in the 60s-80s made real and pushed via automaton to all corners of the public internet.

The reason you become vulnerable is because you abdicate control (most had no idea) of your feed to providers that own domain names.

This was a co-option of how the internet worked previously.

What kind of techniques were researched? This sounds interesting to learn about. Do you have some terms I could search that will help me learn more?

Buckle up, you’re in for a wild ride