"Now, thanks to the internet, ..."
This seems to be a common misdirection seen with defending Facebook. (Not to mention other Big Tech companies.)
Facebook == "the internet"
Facebook proponents, including public statements from the company, attribute the benefits we enjoy from the internet to Facebook.
Criticism of Facebook == criticism of "the internet"
It follows that any threat to Facebook is a threat to the internet.
Threat to Facebook == threat to "the internet"
Its quite sneaky.
EDIT: One insidious implication is to create or reinforce a false belief that we cant derive any benefits from the internet unless we support Big Tech and their mass-scale, popularity-driven, advertising-based "business model". This helps Big Tech to stifle competition and new and/or different ideas not under their control.
The internet isnt the web, nor is the web a small collection of popular websites, or a small collection of popular web browsers.