I started writing and teaching about crap detection in 2009 and the disinfotainment vs critical thinking arms race was lost when middle schools failed to teach simple skills for testing accuracy of search results. Tech has run four laps and edu still in starting blocks

Bend over and kiss our asses goodbye?

Long and nuanced article, resistant to tldr, but: the battle over misinformation is lost, fact-checking does not dissuade persuasion through lying, combo of computational and social amplification of falsehoods leads to epistemic crisis -- mistrust of all info, a la Arendt.