Thank you for writing this, reminicent of what I wrote not too long ago.

Accurate, contextual, relevant and reliable information in our communication systems is, in the wider sense, a public good, whereas lies, misinformation and nonsense can be seen as pollutants to our shared info sphere.

Even in a (somewhat functional) capitalist system, if you pollute the river to increase your financial income, regulators are gonna slam and punish you because you endangered a public good for personal gain.

However, if you pollute the info sphere by e.g lying about vaccine safety during a pandemic, odds are nothing is going to happen to you, even (or maybe especially) if you hold the biggest megaphone in the world.