The something happened is dems propagandized the shit out of voting for sleepy joe and fucking somehow managed to pull a bunch of leftists to vote for Biden cuz muh fascism or whatever. Could also be due to voter suppression or write in chumpfuckery idk

Facebook was throttling the engagement of even the increasingly liberal Mother Jones for being too leftist. So yes, media blackout was definitely involved. What's surprising is that it kinda exposes the limits of what manufactured consent can do. It turns out reality won't consent to the neoliberal agenda so the election results broke in the weirdest of ways with Trump increasing his turnout with minorities and women.