Television and social media produced dramatic changes…
Everything changed… from families to individuals, to politics.
It quickly became a world of confusion, and “chronic uncertainty.”
Experts lost their credibility, truth and facts became almost impossible to find.
What seemed “good for me” gradually became the primary reason to support a political candidate.
Social media, potentially a tool for national unity, became a political weapon and divided the country.
This is how the dynamics of the Internet and “digital politics” enabled many democracies around the world to became dictatorships . Democracies are in peril everywhere… including the U.S.
Larry D. Lauer 
Good analysis of the current situation. Is there a way to create an independent fact checking entity? Our political system currently operates from separate sets of conflicting claims about what is true or factual.