This is what Gromit wrote on a recent thread:-
The press has always been biased. And Governments have always controlled the news.
Until now. The World Wide Web has democratised the news. Which sounds like a good thing, but isn't.
There are no longer any filters. The Foreign Offices message is swamped until no one sees it. The newspapers' editorial lines are contantly being derailed or rerouted by the uncontrolled electronic media.
No one controls what we can read, and no one controls what we can write. We are subjected to far more nonsense than ever before. All kinds of bonkers opinions are out there, and most people do not have the capacity to interpret what they see and cannot detect what is bogus. So some very dangerous ideas get traction and become widely belueved even though they are not true.
All that isn't entirely new, we have had it for 25 years