bishopBlame that guy who invented the like button on Facebook. Suddenly, there's a different way of quantifying what your constituents like and then, even more suddenly, there are troll farms to manipulate those numbers to make you believe that your constituents like something that they may not actually like.
@[email protected] And, since most people are actually socially conforming sheeples, they start liking those numbers that they think their fellow humans like, and thus the spiralling fascism that you now notice.