More specifically: we've opened a tome containing most human knowledge (in an unfiltered, messy hash stripped of truthfulness signals) and we don't teach children how, in that context, to separate wheat from chaff.

It's a hell of a social experiment we're all in the middle of (though to be fair, that's always true; television was its own flavor of mass social experiment with its own pros and cons, as was telephone, as was radio, as was telegraph).