What Social Media Means for Your Personal Growth

This sounds like the same old argument, blaming someone's stupidity on outside forces. Not everyone is born smart. You want diversity? Well it doesn't only come in color; it comes in intelligence as well as other aspects. Swaying peoples options is by no means new or born of the digital age, and when it deals with politics, guess what, it's call propagandaBut the research is limited and in its infancy. The artical says, "Despite this, we are well aware that understanding and manipulating human behavior has been a motivation of recent events targeting political elections through social media". In the 19-teens and 1920s, we had the Creel Commition, the U.S.'s first real propaganda machine. Noam Chompski as well as other have writen om the subject. Hell, there's even a section in Machiavelli's "The Prince" on the subject. The stupid will always exist to do stupid things and as the population grows the proportion of stupid grows and the more we make that the subject of our news the more noticable stipid will be.