The visual image I like is that we're all puppets influenced by the media sources we consume. Each media source is shaped by its business model — and other goals, which gives us a (statistically) biased view of the world (e.g., social feed algorithms and engagement).

See the puppet images we made in this media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer

(Contributions welcome)

Ideally, we are individually able to realize this — and cut some of these strings.