they make money by being digital pimps for snake oil products. lower the critical thinking of peasants, higher the chances of them getting fooled by targeted ads of scams and fake garbage.

try searching for any chronic illness on chrome or talk about it on whatsapp and you will be getting ads for miracle cures for months.

any of the popular social media is now heavily infested with propaganda bots or fake promoted slop.

niche forum and sparse space like lemmy are the only thing left to have any decent interactions. even lemmy.world was heavily brigaded during election.