Its a bit sad to me that the tech community here on HN doesn't seem to take any responsibility for all this.
Surely some non-trivial percentage of the commenters / lurkers that are proud to talk about their mono-repo or their favorite react library had some part in the fact that millions think the covid vaccine has 5G.
I have friends who worked or work at Meta who will sit in their mansions paid for by all this destruction telling you how bad the USA has become and how displeased they are with the current admin, and never mention the role of social media lol
Social media has allowed the masses to be manipulated in a targeted way like we've never seen in history.