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We went from "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" to

It's more like: we went from "don't believe everything you read on the internet" to "This is true. Source: Me, I'm a doctor." People say this crap all the time on Reddit and they receive hundreds and thousands of upvotes.
Amazing how quickly people now believe any random idiot on the internet.
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It's still the information age - no promises were made about the veracity of that information. >

The veracity of information is accelerating in a direction. >

What we're witnessing is in direct consequences to that time our teachers told us not to use wikipedia >

mhm. Media literacy is an algorithm, not a list of acceptable sources and unacceptable sources.
I remember being taught that in middle school history, primary vs secondary vs tertiary sources, etc. And then the same teachers saying "don't use Wikipedia!"
I'm not a teacher, but I believe their intent was to force students to learn how to use libraries and encyclopedias instead of an internet search engine, it wasn't just "wiki bad". The first is still a valuable skill, but so was/is the second.
Oh well, here we are, with a bunch of people who'd be helped by learning how to google some shit now and then. >

We went from "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" to "This article on RealFreedomPatriot.net PROVES COVID vaccine turns us into slaves of our reptilian overlords!"