It's a comprehensive information warfare doctrine.

I'm sorry for how nuts this sounds, but there are all 3 components - 1) the architecture benefiting bot farms, crushing minority opinions and saturating attention, 2) LLM's and other such means to make this order of magnitude more efficient, 3) surveillance systems and insecure by design software and services so that only powerful would have privacy.

In the end result nobody can hear you scream if a much narrower authority than 20 years ago doesn't want that.

I couldn't muster my attention to start re-reading The Last of the Jedi and other such things from the Star Wars 20-0 PBY era, but all this really seems like ascent of a new totalitarian future. A well-prepared one, unlike the rookie attempts in the 1920's and 1930's. People in the West are going to feel well and think they have democracy and civilization, and also that parties committing a few holocausts in the other parts of the planet are totally not in bed with that democracy.