We've never been ready! The 'mid-truth' media was already so full of propaganda and misinformation and inaccuracies that there was no hope of sorting through it

We've never been ready! The 'mid-truth' media was already so full of propaganda and misinformation and inaccuracies that there was no hope of sorting through it all reliably. People have been experiencing and complaining about information overload since the invention of the printing press, and then the telegram, and on and on.