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You would need to enlighten enough people to wake them up without making then feel uncomfortable they've been believing a lie. Nobody likes to feel foolish for what they've believed in.
But fighting for a common cause helps to unite people by putting aside their differences.
Also, REALLY good start is get people OFF of major tech. Hurt their profits by reducing the content they profit off of (selling user data), which in turn reduces ad revenue too. Then they simultaneously they can't afford to buy out politicians who make favorable policies for big tech and social media.
The more we can reduce big tech, the less all the data brokers can profit from since a major data contributor vanishes. Eventually, we gain the proper people in office who are pro people and not technology, and eventually the people win.
Other battles are big pharma and the auto industry as both also utilize data brokers. The only way that gets fixed falls back to the right people in leadership roles.