I think a great comparison to the current situation with social media is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethylle

I think a great comparison to the current situation with social media is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead -- because of the following: 1. The companies that run these giant platforms know about the problems they cause 2. Those companies are hiding data about the problem 3. Those companies are doing nothing to fix the situation 4. Those companies are actually doing everything they can to make the situation worse Even worse than oil companies and lead in gasoline, these companies absolutely rely on generating hate, because that generates clicks/doomscrolling which brings them revenue. So they will continue to do nothing about this problem until they are forced to. The tool to force them to do this is government.