Black box feed shaping is sneaky propaganda, making undesirable messages effectively unseen. We shouldn’t submit to it, or give credence to it.
European citizens’ media feeds in the control of a hostile country enables the slow, strategic destruction of Europe by trillions of unnoticeable manipulations.
I messaged Margrethe Vestager’s team years ago after she did an interview on reddit to inform her on the many violations reddit had had and whether she realized that by participating in the social network they were in some way condoning it. They did not care, it’s all a public show. If they had cared long ago, they would have been at the forefront of technologies like the fediverse and their adoption and development. They are great at suing corporations from foreign nations for money, not so much on understanding the why of their own legislation that allows them to do that.