The more a politician knows about how you vote, the less they actually care about the laws they're passing.
Social media profiling allows candidates to win elections by targeting specific emotions rather than solving complex problems. When politicians can 'micro-target' voters, they lose the incentive to actually study the laws they are supposed to write.
When Politicians Stop Learning: Social Media and the Quality of Democratic Representation
SSRN · 6440962
The political economy literature on social media has primarily focused on misinformation and polarization. We highlight a different and overlooked channel: the effect of data-driven voter profiling on politicians' incentives to acquire policyrelevant information. We develop a model in which an incumbent politician can exert costly effort to learn about an uncertain state of the world before proposing a policy to a representative voter. The politician does not perfectly observe the voter's prior