The biggest threat here is not waves of bullshit, that’s nothing new. It’s knowing who to trust. One of the defining factors under the Stasi in East Germany,

The biggest threat here is not waves of bullshit, that’s nothing new. It’s knowing who to trust. One of the defining factors under the Stasi in East Germany, it was not that “ordinary people” could not recognise what they heard on the radio was bullshit, but that they could not know who to trust to say “that’s bullshit”. Every family has a Stasi informer, so whilst everyone knew the regieme was lying there was no critical mass event. There are a dozen technical solutions to “bullshit”. We just need to ensure we have institutions that support us standing up to it.