The difference was Obama wasn't subverting fact or allowing foreign governments and financial interests to covertly "muddy the waters". I don't think the world

The difference was Obama wasn't subverting fact or allowing foreign governments and financial interests to covertly "muddy the waters". I don't think the world understood in 2008 how that could happen, and in deed, Facebook wasn't touching nearly as many lives a decade ago. During the 2016 election, FB reared its head as the ugly pot of social unrest we now know it to be. We learned a lot about "echo chambers", "fake news", "us/them", the "alt-right", etc. And we heard a lot about how these fun little social networks we're tooling around on may not be the panacea we thought. Mix that with the outpouring of emotion following the election of possibly the least likely candidate in history, and you've got the backlash you describe. Oh, and Obama won the popular election. Twice.