Corporate media have always been used to manipulate the masses but the internet exacerbated this by providing corporate media with additional information about

Corporate media have always been used to manipulate the masses but the internet exacerbated this by providing corporate media with additional information about the users and the ability to target people by demographics, political preferences, social class and more. This improved not only manipulation but also rage-baiting, click-baiting, targeted gaslighting, astroturfing, social division further amplifying the previously mentioned capabilities and more. There is a lot of money and power to be gained by manipulating the masses. Those perceptive enough to detect this will lose confidence in the corporate media and with time this lack of confidence will spread to other services as well. Governments are not able or willing to fix this so the only winning move is not to play. Create block-lists for social media and corporate media sites. Return to smaller interest based platforms that have less than 20K users each. Avoid anything federated as it only takes one compromised platform to spoil the entire fleet. This will be very difficult for many as the dopamine addiction to social and corporate media will be challenging to break and people like belonging to a massive group. Many will instead invoke coping mechanisms and other excuses to continue their habits. I mention social media as corporate media often control, operate and/or manipulate the masses on said platforms. Some of the manipulators are on this site and will try to defend the big corporate and social media platforms. see if you can spot it...