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Malign influence campaigns encourage feelings of futility, impotence, disaffection, indifference, venality, self-absorption, and distraction.
Disinformation is funded to encourage disengagement.
Books by Timothy Snyder and Masha Gessen describe how Putin achieved his despotic rule through disinformation campaigns encouraging a distracted & disinterested electorate.
The same has been achieved in most democracies.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/19/knight-nonvoter-study-decoding-2020-election-wild-card-115796
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_apathy