4/4 This also shows how opinions are manufactured rather than deliberated. No matter how this situation will be resolved, it already shows a modern weakness of liberal democracy and how the world's autocrats can make use of it. In this case, they have already won by discrediting democracy itself.

3/4 So, even though the votes have been cast in a legitimate way, they have still been manipulated. But where is the line? What is legal canvassing and what is election fraud? It raises the question how free we really are in our voting decision and how much control we have on it.

2/4 The real problem however, lies in the nature of the manipulation. The votes have not been forged or altered, they did not stuff the ballot boxes with fakes. Instead, the voters have been influenced by a massive online campaign on a platform they themselves chose to spend time on.