As a dumb American, it’s part of a continuing trend to support global fascism through batshit right-wing media outlets. Anything Murdoch owned and “other”. Here, it’s mutated into webcasts and twitter/“other” social media platforms, but the goal is always the same: Spin, deflect, gaslight, lie, deny, and keep oligarchs in power damn the cost. It’s ridiculously effective and very cheap, relatively speaking.

What you’re describing happened to all our friends and family in the late 90’s / early-2000’s.

See also: Australia, New Zealand, India, France, Germany, Ital- well, Italy might be organic, who knows ;)