Okay my friend, you win. Ideas, especially bad ideas, spread at exactly the same rate in the social media age as they did when the printing press was first invented. Printing tens of thousands of flyers and distributing them by hand to strangers is exactly as easy and inexpensive as firing off a few tweets to your followers while you're taking a dump.

Never mind the fact that a single account on Twitter can have more followers than the KKK ever did. Or that online cesspools like 4chan and 8chan get around 22 million visitors every month.

Social media had no impact on Jan 6th. No impact on the BLM riots. No impact on COVID denialism or COVID hysteria.

And yes, the fact that people die of drug overdoses means we should be totally indifferent to other types of death or the motives behind them. Nobody is capable of caring about both simultaneously. In fact, until social media is driving 100% of human suffering we should ignore the enormous influence it has.