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by lithos 1983 days ago
It is in my opinion.

Social Media in its current state is to show people something emotional to drive engagement. And then drives that idea to the logical conclusion of grouping people with others that will feed off of each other, to further those emotions and engagement. Literally designed to drive each user into finding an abusive relationship to addict themselves to.

This also means that those Social Media sites are the sites responsible for sorting the vulnerable into easy to find groups. So that people who would exploit such groups have easy access to finding their victims.