to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing, that citizens no longer know what to believe. he s not wrong. it s happening here in the united states, it s been happening a long time, a lot of people in the category he s talking about, and went on to highlight the challenges we now face in our, quote, fully-connected world. social media did not create racism or white supremacist groups. didn t create the kind of ethno-nationalism that putin s enraptured with. it didn t create sexism, class conflict, religious strife, greed, envy, all the deadly sins, all these things existed long before the first tweet or facebook poke.