As the media industry relies on sensationalism to grab eyeballs that can be monetized, it seems evident that we will continue the trend of promoting distortions and outright lies. Brexit, Trump, and so many other abominations were largely the result of the media promulgating the lies spouted by infantile halfwits. Furthermore, even when the media isn't disseminating outright lies, it distorts in damaging ways. 100,000 civil aircraft take off, fly, and land safely every day - but the media highlights only the very rare crash. SARS-CoV2 has killed a tiny fraction of the population in even the hardest-hit nations (0.3% of the population, leaving 99.7% alive - unlike for example smallpox, which kills 30% - 60% of the population) but the media sensationalizes edge-cased and presents numbers without any context.

In short, the media is to blame for a great many of our contemporary ills, and will continue to undermine civil society simply because that is the most profitable thing to do. The technologies by which this goal is accomplished are largely irrelevant in comparison.