To be fair the last regime was neither open and was certainly dishonest if only by omission. Before that we were pretty opaque too. It seems to be a Wasp tradition of keeping people in the dark.
As for social media, at least nobody has offered us a seat next to dead people, as yet. If you don't recall that one, it was the St Georges day game- "calling all George's", one of whom listed was George Harrison, who was as dead then as he is now. So I am counting that as a win.