Comment by libertine

You have to factor in the overall lower barrier of entry (little to no technical skills required, cheap tools easily accessible, etc) paired with distribution capacity on a massive scale at little cost (like you don't need to be featured in a local newspaper to try to picked up by national networks and go "viral").

You can literally produce fake information at an industrial scale, distribute it in real time, and see what sticks at virtually no cost.

How do you think we're at the point of breaking the world?