To my mind, articles like these are why wikipedia can be invaluable at taking together disparate facts into a cohesive whole. If you were to experience this on 2024 twitter, you would get random snippets from any of the 151 sources in the article and people ready to argue and troll you all day with their idiosyncratic interpretations, communicated through a blizzard of insults, subject changes, and self-congratulation.<p>The missing skill is being able to focus to fit one-off details into big-picture context, and communication styles based on exchanges of small snippets are good at spreading misinformation because they prevent the big picture cohesion from getting off the ground.