Funnily enough I was listening to a podcast on this topic today. They highlighted that it's not just making money off others work, but sometimes they clip things in such a way as to twist what originally transpired. This is purely for the controversy because, of course, that gets more views than the reality. This can be detrimental to the reputation of the original creator as well. Naturally no-one can be bothered with going to the original long form which they've now (in their minds) already seen in short form (because who's got the attention span for long form anyway?) and so the false narrative continues with the controversial stolen content as it continues to bring eyes and make money. They also went into AI generated fakes of high profile people/influencers.
In December Australia will be requiring ID for us to use most social media platforms as part of new regulations to stop under 16s using them. They've recently, quietly, added search engines to that if you're logged into Google or Microsoft. In all honesty I've reached the point where I'm not sure I even want to bother with these platforms any more anyway. Far too much time disappears when I go on them and you can't believe most of what you're seeing and reading anyway.