I stand by my point, if half of the population can be ideologically "switched"/manipulated by a smartphone app then the original ideology (I would assume liberal-democracy in the case of US) wasn't that heavily implanted to begin with.

The US politicians should look into why that is so, why is that suddenly the US population so easy to "manipulate" away from an ideology it has strongly believed in for more than 200 years, but I guess that would reflect poorly on said politicians (because they're part of the problem).

What if the US and most other countries have always been sheepishly easy to manipulate -- but it wasn't noticeable, until modern tech like FB, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok appeared?

It seems to me that Xi in China agrees about this, in that they've blocked all those things (except for their own).

> that would reflect poorly on said politicians (because they're part of the problem).

How do you mean? That they too manipulate the population, and are part of a manipulation problem?