I think it does among the cognitive elite, and that this explains the rise of complex but good ideas such as applied rationality and Effective altruism. I'm less sure about other groups.

If I look at our LessWrong Dojo in Berlin and it's usage of CFAR techniques the internet does play a role. However the fact that a few people attended CFAR workshops also played a key role. I think I would know significantly less about CFAR if I wouldn't have meet Valentine in person and chatted with him.

From my perspective the German Pirate Party started off well but never actually went deep and did the required thinking to provide a real political alternative. Online conversations on Twitter fractioned them further. There was a lot more development of new political ideas in '68 than today.

When it comes to newspapers reputation becomes less important while writing sensational articles that get clicks becomes more important. Factual qualities of articles might suffer through that mechanism.

But there room for creating the future in which we want to live. We can actually create better systems.