in my mind, enormous societal progress that lots of people now get their news from other ordinary people on websites/apps (“social media”)

Yeah. About that…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966

It’s not AI. Here is the original source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6aL5TVVRFI

The new President cancelled the deal. He reinstated sanctions on Iran.

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-iran-cead755353a1455bbef08ef289448994

The Iranians started enriching Uranium again

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/07/middleeast/iran-nuclear-agreement-intl/index.html

And here we are today…