Devils advocate: Lack of critical thinking skills is not new either. Does the government have a authority and responsibility to regulate social media platforms in such a way that they cannot choose to deliberately present a biased perspective to users?
Reverse Devil's advocate: Do social media platforms have the authority to not only present their biased views, but prevent other social media platforms (see Parler) from presenting alternate views?
Certainly prior to big tech, say 50 years ago, you had people sitting in front of the TV getting their news from three national over the air sources: ABC, NBC, and CBS, but then also getting local and regional news through their local TV/radio news and newspapers, which more often than not allowed for varying opinions.
The latter is no longer as independent as it once was. The video has in the past been posted on APS showing "local" news stations across the country reporting the same verbatim political stories, which were handed to them by their masters in Chicago, NYC, LA, etc. When I look at my local news stations online, at least 50% of their stories are just cutting and pasting whatever the AP wrote.