Indeed. But newspapers do not work by hooking up their audience via individually targeted algorithms that make their users addictive.

They do, actually. An editor's job is to pick stories, oftentimes from syndicated networks, which maximize engagement

"individually targeted algorithms"?

With data ranging back years, sometimes even birth of the individuals?

I don't think so.

Newspaper editor edit one newspaper for everyone.

In the days of local papers, editors would learn the names of everybody in town, and would try to print things about them so people would buy the papers.

I am aware. Still, do you think this is the same as TikTok's automated algorithm?

What "social media" companies are doing with "automated algorithms" are no worse than the massive domestic newspaper, radio, television, and entertainment company consolidation that has been permitted over the past several decades.

If FedGov is going to be fixing problems with the domestic news and entertainment industry, they should start by reversing that consolidation of control.