So the issue with social media is that it allows mass dissent from the officially-promoted opinions on various subjects? I think social media is a mass contagio

So the issue with social media is that it allows mass dissent from the officially-promoted opinions on various subjects? I think social media is a mass contagion that will doom us to ineffectual and isolated failure, but for that first reason, it has been essential. Or maybe, without social media to promote those very officially-approved opinions, we would have used our vast and deep social IRL network to discuss and reason, and would have come to that conclusion anyway. I strongly believe that the various world governments' policies of lockdown, social isolation, and mask wearing would not have worked 50 years ago, because we were too connected.