I'd say it took a definite shift after the pandemic, actually, it people are really acute to blogging, the shift started taking place prior, but the bot infiltration took awhile for full implementation to what it is today. Prior to it was a lot of shifting into liberal platforming. I'd imagine they had to have had that planned to happen to convince conservatives their voices were being taking away. Now with the bots, you have to try scroll through them trying to determine if they are human or not. On FB, where a lot of local news platforms are, it's pretty easy because you can check their profiles. Out on MSM, the ones that read like a ChatGPS answer, you know no human wrote that. Sometimes you respond to one and they respond back that basically your answer doesn't compute with them, well, you hit another bot bingo. The good old days when everyone was human, is long gone, where intelligent conversations, words written with wisdom, is basically, dust in the wind for the most part.
It's hard to believe we have to say things like that, isn't it?