Funnily enough, it's always been like this. Don't forget about the Hollywood blacklist during the Cold War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

In 1941, producer Walt Disney took out an ad in Variety, the industry trade magazine, declaring his conviction that "Communist agitation" was behind a cartoonists and animators' strike. According to historians Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, "In actuality, the strike had resulted from Disney's overbearing paternalism, high-handedness, and insensitivity."

The more things change, the more they stay the same.