I mean the US is just as guilty of that, with e.g. Facebook and companies using it manipulating global politics; see for example Cambridge Analytica and the list of elections they influenced [0] through nasty means. There's also the Snowden revelations that revealed the US security services have free access to social media; if you want surveillance, that's the one. And let's not even start about the psyops that the US has been doing for decades, pushing the narrative that they are the saviours of the world and all that through media and Pentagon-approved movies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Elections