I see this as a net positive. as you say people with resources and an agenda have been manipulating the media since, idk, Caesar's deeply exaggerated Commentari

I see this as a net positive. as you say people with resources and an agenda have been manipulating the media since, idk, Caesar's deeply exaggerated Commentaries or even before and has been going trough the ages, including Stalin's photoshops and Kerry Fonda revisionism or at a simpler level the billion 'anonymous sources say' articles that litter modern journalism. but now that the tools are getting into the hand of everyone, everyone is starting to questioning everything they see, and it was about time that people start to realize the chain of trust required in reporting and accepting news. here's hoping that in half generation we'll be back at thinking critically about every piece of information we see.