I’d add another difference: way more idiots. Back in the day, that idea that everything on the internet needed to be taken with a grain of salt was incredibly widespread. It was one of the bedrocks of internet culture, and it’d get memed to death.
Now, the number of people who view everything on the internet as gospel truth has surpassed the number of healthy skeptics.
Hey, I’ll give him some props; this is when you should resign, not halfway through a campaign for reelection. Now Liberal at least has a chance to find someone new to beat Pierre, since Trudeau had no shot.