I use Twitter and Instagram on a daily basis and have been very familiar with the surveillance nature of social media. I do come across the occasional tweet about how someone refuses to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available because they believe the government is going to attempt to put a microchip inside us, but all I have to say is are you not sending this tweet from a device that... can track you and all your data? Since Instagram is owned by Facebook, I am sure that all the same surveillance may be occurring there. Twitter shows what a person may like or retweet, which can be used to see how people may agree or disagree on certain topics, and by using this, we surveil each other.
Like many people can relate, when doing some online shopping and searching for headlights for my car on safari, I seem to receive ads for headlights of the exact make and model of my car on Twitter, which shows how Twitter is not excluded from the conversation of surveillance on social media. I do not believe that we will never be surveilled on social media, companies need to make money somehow (by collecting and selling data, that is).
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