> The public needs to learn that they can't trust that every video they see on the internet is real, just as they've had to learn that they can't trust every photo they see online.

This very thing, is the end of an informational common good that we shared, and allowed for the average person to coordinate and gain benefits faster than elites.

The analogy I would put forward, is that we are moving into a dark forest online, where distrust is the ideal first move, and signaling your position is to make yourself open to attack.

The idea of an open internet dies in this environment, and so does the reduced cost of coordination.

Another tragedy is that corrupt, clannish, controlling and secretive organizations are more effective than open, distributive and collaborative societies in this scenario.

> The best defense is making sure that people have a good education that teaches critical thinking skills and media literacy

While true, any solution that depends on education is effectively depending on society having its shit together in the first place.

This very idea was proposed at a conference to a room full of fact checking orgs and media orgs, and one of the responses was that the more likely solution is global warming. That is how bleak things were is in the user safety world in 24.