IT is no longer news how often social media brings up conspiracy theories, deepfakes and other such misinformation. I would even say that it seems to be the reason for their existence now. The internet was supposed to foster connectivity to bring about understanding and make things more efficient and clearer. It was meant to be educational, offering correct and indisputable information, and thus make for a more tolerant world, a better appreciation of the unfamiliar or foreign, which would open a wider and more benign universe for its users.

Obviously, we are not in that ideal world of internet activity with fake news, uncontrolled rants and unrestrained insults that are a daily fare. With the upcoming US election and our own midterm polls next year, by the present order of things, we might get worse internet activity.