[nailer]

That's a legitimate concern. We've recently had examples of the US government influencing US mass psychology via Twitter, including examples where Twitter was asked to suppress information the government stated was factually correct.

The CCP is trash, and the US government is far better (it has elections, for one thing) but I suggest we should be concerned about any attempt to manipulate the populace.

[ryandrake]

Being a representative democracy, the USA's critical weakness is that it is ruled by stupid people that are voted in by the stupid people they represent. So yea, the US government is better but dumb, and it is vulnerable to misinformation and manipulation. Our global rivals know this. It shouldn't be a huge surprise that we're being (at best) pen-tested (and at worst) attacked through things like tiktok and troll farms.

[JPws_Prntr_Fngr]

It's ruled by monied people, who manufacture consent amongst the stupid people partly by convincing them that the executive and legislative branches are somehow answering to the stupid people, and not the monied people.

This works, because we're stupid.