We once read a book called "Feed" in high school - a ham fisted anti-capitalist book. Wherein citizens are 100% connected to an internet like service that only exists to sell them products. 90% of the class couldnt get it. Even when the teacher sat down and explained the entire plot of the book they still couldnt wrap their head around it.
Yeah, it's bad. Good job on digging up the newspaper, hadn't seen that before! Maybe add a content warning since you are describing details of child abuse.