Quite - that's been patently obvious since the Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

Ultimately, there's a war between the haves and the have-nots and one side clearly has more resources.

Yeah.

It's demoralising.

Yes, that is the final observation needed in the proof that open societies are more brittle than those led by dictators.

An open society shouldn't have all the mainstream media in the control of just a handful of people - that's a recipe for abuse and cover-ups. It reminds me of hierarchical religions where just certain people (e.g. priests) have access to the "higher powers" and can thus mislead the masses.