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Capitalism is the problem. Profit driven anything is just a symptom.
The regime is the problem... You are focusing on social constructs when what we see if the result of rich peoples actions. They rule us like thisa dn they make profit from it.
As long as humans value a forum, of any description, of any economic structure, someone will find a way to corrupt it. The problem isn't money, the problem is bad actors trying to monopolize your attention. Take away Facebook's profit structure, does that make a bad actor any less likely to want to post misinformation?
I blame profit driven SM only so far as that in an effort to appeal to a wider audience, they have succeeded and now there are even more people online using them so we actually have a closer look at reality and how there's a shitton of people who don't see the reality of climate change anywhere.
That effort to appeal is by boosting ragebait to get engagement and foster addiction to the platform, in order to sell more ads.
Hence, morons get a bigger megaphone and groupthink takes over. See also the rise of Nazis/nationalism, etc.
Line go up, corpo no care