They want us to be fools by dint of our diminished attention span, a product of scrolling through so much toxic and fleeting content that it's based on exploiting the instinctual in human beings, unleashing emotions without first filtering them through calm, critical thinking.
We are old enough to have known the real world without social media and can easily see the toxic nature of it and be able to choose not to add to it. I wonder how true that will be for our younger generations, though. Can we teach them the critical thinking to be able to see the duplicity or will they end up making the virtual world and the real world one and the same? I hope that I have been able to teach my daughters, but I still see a certain amount of it playing out where they feel like I should be aware of some reality that I haven't actually encountered outside of the internet.