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I think the internet is now a double-edged sword, and I can speak to this coming from a former Republican household in the 2000s.
Back then, pre-Facebook (and to at least the very early stages when it was a College-oriented platform), the internet was far less segregated into marketing platforms. You really would be exposed to anything and everything and that, combined with my parents' upbringing in the 60s really had an impact on our family's perception of events, including the Iraq War.
Nowadays, marketing algorithms are fine-tuned to preach to the choir and simply create massive echo-chambers. You can see this if you just create a new YouTube account and see the default content that shows up, like Joe Rogan... Just watch let alone like one of his videos, and next you'll have Jordan Peterson clips filling your feed and as this happens any contrarian viewpoint gets marginalized.
If we had the internet of today back then, I'm not sure my family would break our rural right-wing religious pro-life bubble. It is VERY hard today unless you're already well-versed in critical-thinking, have a major dose of introspection and humility, and are internet-savvy.