Comment by uniqueid

  I picture a future with hordes of millions of gullible fools who can be commanded like armies by social media demagogues.

I watched a stream of a London anti-lockdown protest the other day, and that's more or less what occurred to me.

https://youtu.be/hy7bmdDGKZ8

The stream is six hours long, but it's packed with moments such as:

35m — Crowd listens to some conspiracy theorist blame all the world's ills on 'Kabalah'

1h 26m — A face-spitting street altercation breaks out between an anti-masker and an alarmed doctor who apparently got caught in the demonstration.

2h 13m — Some insane woman with a bullhorn explains that WiFi and 5g will 'destroy your ovaries' with 'Communism' (or something to that effect, anyways).