I would argue that a more robust regulatory framework around social media could have at least prevented the worst harms. For example, more robust moderation or

I would argue that a more robust regulatory framework around social media could have at least prevented the worst harms. For example, more robust moderation or at least requiring companies to have responsive liaisons who speak the local language for territories they operate in could have mitigated/prevented the serious harms we've seen Facebook and Whatsapp cause in multiple countries i.e. Myanmar. This is of course assuming we'd get the kind of regulations we need, instead of useless security theater or regulations so onerous that they prevent products from developing at all. But it does seem like it would have been possible to prevent the worst of it, since many of these cases boil down to 'Facebook (or other big company) didn't care and didn't bother to try, and then bad things happened'