Algorithmic influence over people's minds is exactly why we should be trying to get our friends and family off of corpo social media and onto less sophisticated systems like the #fediverse
If everyone stays on Facebook/Twitter/Tiktok/Instagram we'll have more and more people getting puppeted even harder than mass media has been already.
https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/what-worries-me-about-ai-ed9df072b704