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I don't disagree with your premise, but what if they are doing the bidding of the government? Would you consider that being a defacto arm of the government? It's currently being played out in the courts right now with the latest move was a judge put in an injunction barring the white house from communicating with social media companies.
If there is one good thing from Elon buying Twitter it's him releasing the Twitter files showing that social media was doing things at the behest of the government in the aims to censor people.
Just a note about the injunction, it will not survive on appeal. The judge in this case stretched things pretty thin in his argument for the emergency injunction pending trial in this case. Lumping together government agencies reporting TOS violations with other elected officials threatening section 230 into one was just silly. Episode 771 of the Opening Arguments podcast does a better job of explaining the injunction and ongoing case than I ever could.
Corruption is a different topic.