It also pollutes the mind of ignorant people with misinformation. Not that that is anything new. But I do think objective truth is very important in a democratic society. It reminds me of that video that used to go around that showed Sinclair Broadcasting in like 20 some different ‘local’ broadcast news all repeating the same words verbatim. It ended with ‘This is extremely dangerous to our democracy’. With AI being added to all the search engines, it is really easy to look something and unknowingly get bombarded with false info pulled out of the dregs of internet. 90% of people don’t verify the answer to see if it is based in reality.

Underdeveloped is right there

They are the same picture meme

From wiki: Accordingt [sic] to BNO News and other sources, Kirk was confirmed to have died.[14]

Not sure, but I’d bet it’s less than flipphones / dumbphones. For the average person, smartphone and android/apple are probably synonymous.