Do you believe that governments might want to use social media platforms to try to divide the population within their own country?

Only saying this because it's how people in power legitimize their own power over everyone else. External boogie men help as well. Of course foreign influence is a real factor that works against people in their own country. The USA has done many foreign influence operations that has been detrimental to those people. I'm not surprised that foreign governments would do the same over here.

All in all, the general population often suffer downstream from these games of power.