Agreed, but sounds like the issue is the politicians and the government, not rich people.
Are we going to pretend that a nation-state's intelligence agency(ies) aren't some of FB's biggest clients? Are you not aware how the 5-Eyes program works at all?
FB gladly hand over the details of those Q-anon imbeciles on their platform with no resistance, they then proceeded to censor and de-platform anyone who didn't follow the narrative and even went after people who had nothing to do with politics in the last wave of bans.
And you don't think these 'rich people' aren't beholden to the State and its surveillance economy, of which they are just one part of the apparatus?
Corruption begets corruption: and many of these rich people (specifically CEOs of FAANG) are not without blood on their hands, playing 'whose worse' is like saying the one to actually kill Ceaser was the last to deliver the final blow on the Senate floor as he laid in a pool of his own blood. (Ceaser was a tyrant and deserved to die, just so its clear.)
I would argue the very Nation-State model is to blame, its a total cesspool; and this type of cronyism is prevalent in this model which rewarded a few (like, but limited, to Zuck) who acquiesced when they State showed up with bags of money for them to play along for these exact events.