And then re-shared and promoted by bots masquerading as US citizens specifically for maximum impact against targeted individuals who are most susceptible to manipulation and most likely to propagate the material.
So you are critiquing the mechanism of getting social media likes for content? Don't all newspapers do that these days? I think the way to criticize the articles is by pointing out untrue content or bad journalism. So far nobody has done that.
Did you really mean that? Do you think people who are susceptible to manipulation need to be protected by Google, not for their own good but because they can be manipulated to have political opinions that you personally disagree with? That means you think your political belief is so right that competing ideas should be suppressed. That's the complete opposite of freedom of speech that America is one of the world leaders in. Do you think the way China's government limits the spread of political ideas is good too?