Thats the general outcome with Info Overload.

Just flooding the fields doesnt produce fruit. Producing fruit takes time, knowledge and skill. There are no shortcuts.

Snowden should have spent time scanning the data to find allies high and low. Building networks of like minded folk. Regularly meeting to come up with better solutions. Testing them out till the good ones are shown to work. And then launch attacks on those most corrupted. That is what a character like Gandhi did. And the outcomes were very different.