Andrej K makes an interesting point and Autism Capital's dismissive reply is wrong.

It is rational to be more afraid of man than of nature, because it is rational to be afraid of powerful optimizers.

This is also often why we are more suspicious of for-profit versions than non-profit versions of the same activity.

Andrej's thought is interesting
yeah propaganda (nation level) and social engineering (individual level) have always been around under (though under various names)

But what I hate about this is the thought that technologists will try to "solve it" with technology rather socially / culturally. Which would be terrible.