Why social media companies won't reform themselves

 

It's all about the

Investopedia, 2/7/2020

And controversy attracts eyeballs.

New York Times, 5/14/2021

The Guardian, 3/31/2007

Fourteen years later, all eyes remain on the web.

It's admittedly an extreme downer point of view, but it does seem that here on Earth we're increasingly boogying our way to doomsday.  And social media is the accelerant.