Replace "profit driven such-and-such" with "print newspaper" and the rhetorical question works equally well. I think the worst you can say against social media

Replace "profit driven such-and-such" with "print newspaper" and the rhetorical question works equally well. I think the worst you can say against social media is that it feeds you low-quality highly-partisan sources if you seem to like such sources. But your ability to seek out better or contradicting information is not diminished. If anything it is far greater than it has ever been. "Stuff that is against $my_favorite_belief" is a Google search away. Wikipedia alone will usually give you a fairly balanced treatment of a topic with extensive references to diverse perspectives and evidence.