If TV were to be banned under similar reasoning would you believe that to be justified? TV programming is similarly opaque to the social media algorithms.
There are many social medias
> public TV is pretty transparent
In what manner? As a kid I didn't know that the pokemon cartoon existed in order to make me buy trading cards.
Even in news there is an army of editors and producers making decisions all of the time. This leads to things like the state media adding sound effects to footage to make it more sensational and then after losing in court investigating themselves and finding no intentional wrongdoing [1]!
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/05/abc-editorial-...