They played on your curious for the new, your desire to be currently up to date, your need to be part of the group, and your trained consumer behaviour.
Now, you have no access to the knowledge humans spent a 50,000 years accumulating. Soon your children will never know a world in which knowledge is free and learning is unregulated.
This is the end state of culture and civilisation.
To rephrase in newspeak:
To be rightwise citizens, goodthought is grantwise given by plusgoodbrother.
Report all who actwise ungoodfollow doubleplus ungood thought.
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See how easy that is.