Not necessarily baddies but that we play a major part in this too. I fail to see Trump or Biden sitting behind a compiler writing the code. I do see Mark Zuckerberg, a programmer, running a company he founded doing mass data collection.
Zuckerberg a programmer? I think that's quite a reach, to call him a programmer.
Zuckerberg did write a lot of the initial code. Does make him a programmer among many other things.