I was showing my wife a CGI video last night that was done extremely well. I posed the question, "What happens when someone creates a malicious work of fiction that never happened...and the populace gets wound up in it via social media?
That's been happening for years via general propaganda. People don't need to see something to think that it happened. I'm not trying to diminish this, because it is scary, and bad stuff WILL happen. But it's not new.