>>57077 (Checked)
The internet has greatly increased peoples accessibility to knowledge, but its analogous to being in a massive supermarket where the amount of brands of ideas and their agendas are both numerous and unclear, where a good chunk of the world population can easily be misinformed or cherry pick ideas to fit their narrative, instead of challenging it.
Overall, its still better than living in Ancient or Medieval times. Back then, you either had to kill people or join a priest class to learn about information mostly available in your region, and there would be sparse information about outsiders, and even then its more to demonize people not from your tribe.