Like Facebook being a DARPA project I assume most of these social media sites are run by the government.
That’s always been my assumption. I think it’s part of the fascism we live under — government puts up seed money for a business, plus technical know-how. The company takes off, goes public, becomes mostly self-funding (may generate funds for additional black budget items) but the “public corporation” simply does what the Deep State wants and doesn’t really answer to stockholders. I see Twitter, Facebook, Google and others in this category. It’s just the government manipulating the public.
If they weren’t developed by the bottomless pit of your money they were since co-opted!