There is a pervasive assumption that an overwhelming majority of people genuinely want and seek to propagate good, reputable, and truthful information. It's kinda like a new flavor of academic naivete. I'm afraid people don't necessarily want or seek worthful information, actually, and they certainly don't want it enough to help manifest it. Many people would rather remain comfortable, be it financially, ideologically, socially, whatever, and most aren't "bad people", but we were not taught to value information in the ways that are now essential to navigating some real shite we're getting dealt soon. Neither were we taught the tools to navigate through a deliberately sabotaged minefield of dis/misinfo. Some of us learned pretty well anyway. And of course there are some who delight in the lies and gaslighting. In telling you you're crazy for ascribing Nazi-ism to an "awkward, emotional salute with a stiffened right arm", that "he was just throwing his heart out"(?) to that arena, and he's an autist, and you're a monster of enablism", and so on. Do not give a fuck. And don't feel the need to spend time discerning who's lying for fun and who's doing it because, again, it's more comfortable to deny that the richest person in the world is the things many people warned he was. Best of luck to the de, pre-, re-bunkering'ers, whenever and whomever they are, because the internet is mostly configured to destroy a lot of quite-necessary truths in service of wealth gap sustainment or furtherance, at this current moment. Bottom line: do people care enough about correct, reputable, "good" information to prioritize it sufficiently to counter the effects of the algos? No. Not even close. Per bfx, insta is now serving up "You may be interested in following: Hitler Jr. or J. V. Dance" and such. Neato.
the Instagram thing is even worse, a lot of people are now following POTUS without having made the chance to. allegedly it’s a “glitch” impacting “random” users, and some of these people haven’t been unable to unfollow POTUS.