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?

there were a number of university experiments on human choice often dealing with a disparity of information between the parties.

What was learned by the US government in its testing was also known. The reality is experiments like these were done very heavily up until the 60’s with the vast majority getting nixed by the early-to-late 70s

this coincides also with our release of mental patients which were as much experiment subjects as they were patients. We were mapping out people’s behavior to information stimulus for most of the 20th century.

the programs were all stopped but the information continued on and is used in many strata of our lives.

bbc.com/…/mk-ultra-the-cia-s-secret-pursuit-of-mi…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Subliminal Marketing (one of many techniques) is banned however use of the technique in other mediums is not. …chron.com/laws-subliminal-marketing-69892.html

With regards to international actors and thier domestic collaborators, check into Foundations of Geopolitics. Its a playbook being followed.

That geopolitics book is buy some Russian guy right? I’ve heard that it’s literally being played out even though it was written a long time ago