There are plenty of lessons to learn. Propaganda tactics on social media have become a lot more advanced over the past 10 years. But this shit - this shit is baby-brained. It is like people became aware of media literacy as a concept, but only on an extremely superficial level.

People pretend their political adversaries are fake. It is a convenient and self-reassuring story. That we can blow up a server farm somewhere on the other side of the world and all of our enemies will evaporate like the White Walkers after killing the Ice King. And then after that, everything will go back to the Obama years.

At the very least, we should be considering things in terms of The Propaganda Model described by Herman and Chomsky. That the main source of misinformation is not some Death Star we can send Luke Skywalker to blow up for us, but is actually the deeply embedded corporate interests which make up the skeleton and musculature of our entire system of government. The ones who pick our political candidates, who write our laws, write grants for our cops and counterinsurgency training centers, build our propaganda organs, and use them promote stories to justify them.