Again, this was always true, we relied on news agencies and such to be gatekeepers of what is true.
Sometimes a random video pops up and people believe it shows X and then it propagates but it's something completely different (e.g. people beating up immigrants on the streets in northern Italy -> traditional krampus celebrations; Junker drunk at some event -> Junker suffers from lombalgia; Berlusconi mimicing a sexual act on some woman -> it was a comedian skit; Britney Spears sex tape -> it's a random pornstar ...)
People will learn to be doubtful of random internet videos just as they have learned to be doubtful of random internet articles.
Or not, since they haven't yet, but it's not a qualitative change.
Sometimes a random video pops up and people believe it shows X and then it propagates but it's something completely different (e.g. people beating up immigrants on the streets in northern Italy -> traditional krampus celebrations; Junker drunk at some event -> Junker suffers from lombalgia; Berlusconi mimicing a sexual act on some woman -> it was a comedian skit; Britney Spears sex tape -> it's a random pornstar ...)
People will learn to be doubtful of random internet videos just as they have learned to be doubtful of random internet articles.
Or not, since they haven't yet, but it's not a qualitative change.