The crazy thing is that you don&#x27;t need to do <i>any</i> &quot;intense indoctrination&quot;. Facebook has both numbers and time on their side.<p>The same large numbers that makes A&#x2F;B testing and &quot;growth hacking&quot; so effective for a marketing message can be learned and automatically applied here on a scale that dwarfs even Google.<p>All of the messages between people on Facebook in a country? In the US, I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s probably 80%+ of the American electorate at this point. Just subtle suppression of a few stories is enough. Even manipulating trending topics might be enough to have a statistical effect. Facebook was researching emotional effects as far back as 2012 and they never said that they stopped nor did they close that part of the company.<p>With Facebook it&#x27;s not if, it&#x27;s how much manipulation is going on. Not just in America but, around most of the Western world.