@quinn Honestly I think this is unfair. In a sense social media companies are engaged in asymmetric warfare against individual minds. They devote resources to manipulating people into engaging in things they don’t really “want” in much the way a rat in a Skinner box does what the researcher wants it to do.
Ultimately individuals are victims of a vast system of manipulation beyond their control, governments are clueless about it, and bad actors are exploiting it.