Honest question; Why is _facebook_ the powerful tool, and not our populations inability to recognize the threat (misdirection, targeted messages, biased sources

Honest question; Why is _facebook_ the powerful tool, and not our populations inability to recognize the threat (misdirection, targeted messages, biased sources, etc) within it/think critically about it? To dismiss the nonsense like most people used to dismiss tabloids. Facebook obviously scales this up, but that is the nature of a modern connected world, whether we like it or not, and I'd rather give people the tools to navigate that than try to build a padded room, since there will _always_ be another Facebook. (And to fully undermine my own point, I _don't know if it's possible_ to give enough people these skills, but from a philosophy of personal empowerment and freedoms, the alternatives seem far less preferable) It sounds a lot like the drug war. The approach that DRUGS are the problem, as opposed to situations that lead users to abuse them in destructive ways, has lead to a very demonstrable half-century of ineffectual policy and violent/sad outcomes. I have not so entirely given up on ones ability to tread a path through this insanity, and am more worried of an escalating trend to put that responsibility in the hands of some gatekeeper as opposed to ones own agency as a sentient human. I don't even disagree with your final statement; I'd just want to see it come from rejection by the individual than mandate from on high.