In a broader sense, the exhaustive storm of BS is deliberate: When the people are too damn tired to care about which story is really true, it changes the playing field to favor whoever is willing to tell the most-pleasing lies.
Then: "By forcing you to publicly sacrifice your integrity, I've poisoned any future resistance with mutual doubt."
> He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself. You can’t help it. You catch it off him.
-- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Which is different to flooding the channels with contradictory information, so that no-one knows what to believe.
The film 'Hyper Normalisation', by Adam Curtis, is well worth watching, BTW.
(or, at least, pretends to)
Europe is going down the drain due to the lack of innovation and over-regulation making people poorer and poorer. Refugees cause crime on the street making people feel unsafe.
The average Joe is pissed and votes whatever extremists, as long as they oppose the EU.
We have inequality in Romania, but we don't have flrefugees causing crime or making people feel unsafe.
The quality of life as steadily been improving.
There is lack of faith in the political class.