I don't believe so. I think the problem is the way social media platforms prioritize engagement above all else. They use clever algorithms to curate the content

I don't believe so. I think the problem is the way social media platforms prioritize engagement above all else. They use clever algorithms to curate the content you scroll through to maximize time spent engaging with the platform. This has a side effect of promoting fringe content, because it drives engagement. Even if the interaction is the user calling someone an idiot for thinking the Earth is flat, that is still engagement. It gets fed into the algorithm, and now that content gets recommended to more and more people. Reddit is the only social media platform that I think actually resembles a direct democracy. It's algorithm is driven by the karma system, not engagement. Posts and comments that people mostly dislike or disagree with get hidden by their low karma scores even though they often have high engagement metrics for the few people who do see them. This direct democracy comes with it's own problems though, mainly in how it reinforces groupthink and the formation of echo chambers.