In the years since, social media platforms have become friendlier environments for conspiracy theories and those who promote them, helping them spread more widely. Don Moynihan: A “clicktatorship” is a form of government that combines a social media worldview with authoritarian tendencies. The “clicktatorship” views everything as content, including basic policy decisions and implementation practices. There’s been a lot of research about the polarizing and harmful nature of social media. What does it mean that our political leaders are people who have not only been successful in manipulating social media, but have themselves been manipulated by it?