I think it's just that humans suck, not social media. The only reason this place doesn't suck yet (or well, not in the normal sense), is because not enough idiots joined yet. This place seems to be an ideal testing ground for Russian and Chinese propaganda (and perhaps even Western propaganda, which is harder for me to see since I am from the West, obviously).

Not sure whether I should welcome you or whether I should ask you to leave.

"WARNING: there are known law enforcement and/or intelligence operatives and/or paid manipulators present on this site. DO NOT REVEAL ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION or click on suspicious links without hiding your true ip address."

This is just someone role playing as if anyone important is on this website. It is a message clearly designed to make some random schmuck feel self-important. Just look at yourself: You can't even use proper punctuation.

If you are a completely ignorant sucker and you believe everything you read, then you might fall for propaganda. I actually enjoy consuming propaganda to some degree. It's fun to see their pathetic attempts, although deep fakes have made propaganda too easy in theory and it's kind of killing the fun for me.

I think traditional news sources are acting irresponsible regarding the threat posed by deep fakes, but it's not like there is a cure for stupidity.

In theory this world is super dangerous, but in practice you may have found humans to be stupid. Perhaps the top-5 countries in the world even have the capability to do anything that could be considered "dangerous" with a state budget. The story where a "terrorist" does something without state funding, just doesn't happen or it's at most a minor incident by someone with a mental illness (like what happened in France some weeks ago).