Whether society (here I'm referring to "Representative democracy with general elections;" YMMV if you're under an authoritarian or totalitarian state where some

Whether society (here I'm referring to "Representative democracy with general elections;" YMMV if you're under an authoritarian or totalitarian state where someone is already filtering the truth for you) will be fine will be heavily dependent upon whether two things happen: 1. The public, in general, comes to understand in an in-their-bones way that they currently do not understand that most of what they see online is hogwash. I.E. the bozo bit has to flip all the way to "My neighbor says there's a missing dog on the block... but is that really my neighbor?" 2. Some other mechanism of truth-pedigree that has not yet been invented comes along to allow for communication of the current state of the world to work. Without (1) we know democracies are easily led by credible, subtle propaganda, and a well-tuned network of hostile actors will drive wedges at the friction points in representative democracies and crack them into warring subcultures. Without (2) voters will have insufficient tools at their disposal to understand country-scale issues and their ability to effect positive outcomes with their vote will collapse into noise, which is a ripe environment for authoritarians to swoop in and seize power (and a ripe environment for centralized authoritarian states to outmaneuver the representative democracies on the world stage and gain power).