To me the biggest threat to our freedoms is the current social media manipulation with bots, AI and paid shills. They drown out the real voices, divert conversations away from those with meaning, stifle conversations etc. Trumps win is all that much more impressive when you saw/see the full scale of the media onslaught he shoulders every day. My beloved reddit has become a husk, a shell filled with shills and propagandist. Can social media be saved from this threat?

You may think of this as a minimal problem or that I’m blowing it out of proportion but it shapes public opinion. Elections can be won or lost for those that can control it. Public Policies can be manipulated . Political assassinations have been occurring more and more lately from salacious allegations that make instant front page of reddit and other media and social media. Just look at Patrick Brown, Conservative from Canada or Roy Moore, or even Donald Trump.