Fringe ideologies are spread quicker and easier, and people are more susceptible to them. True. What I was mostly referring to, however, was what used to take hours, days, weeks, or even months for bad news to travel around the world (if at all) now takes just a few minutes. That’s a function of more press, camera phones, social media, etc catching events which have always been there but went unnoticed/unrecorded and swept under the rug.
Humans have always been savages…thirsty for money, power, control…claiming land over each other. Dictating superiority over others based on looks and beliefs. We just see it front and center more so then ever.