How the European elections proved that democracies cannot survive without social media regulation

Romania, Poland, Portugal - three countries where elections took place this weekend, and at the same time three examples where candidates/parties offering their voters absolute abominations of hatred and resentment received considerable support.
We can continue to look for explanations that the price of eggs is not that high or that the damn leftists have cornered unfortunate white men and they are snapping back, but hate mongers are gaining more and more support in countries with very different states of economy, migration and political culture in general.
The only common variables in these equations are the creeping revolution in information consumption, where TikTok, YouTube, Telegram or Twitter are finally becoming people's news sources, with algorithms that reliably bring hate mongers to the top of the page.
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