This is an interesting point.

There was a time when there were really only 3 managed public information conduits (largely owned by elites/ruling class) ; print , tv and radio.

I’m not sure we ever got information which had not passed through a “narrative filter”.

The internet effectively sits above those these legacy media in that links to print , sound and image can be spread rapidly and that rapidity can give the information a false importance. Often internet based media are now created to look and sound like legacy media. Of course some media is made to look like “the horses mouth” and appears to have low production values - eg Joe Rogan Show - lacks glossy video back drop and sofas and classic studio lighting etc. Does this imbue what he says with veracity? No , but mental gymnastics will have people thinking that “he’s not on proper TV because the “elites” can have anyone telling the “truth” publicly.

In the good old bad old days most people would agree that the “news” we got was the objective truth because to think otherwise labelled you a conspiracy theorist or worse a “communist” etc. “it must be true otherwise why would they print it?”

The any objective truth if it ever was in legacy media is now confronted by a wall of ever-morphing “truths” ,some of which are objective and some merely appear to be objective because someone said them in a particularly way or in a particular setting. For instance Jordan Peterson looks and sounds like he ought to for a university professor - he sounds convincing he must be right, right? In reality Peterson promulgates Randian right-libertarian ideas like they were his own sagely invention and uncritically - ideas which resonate with a mass of people who are cut adrift from a reality and floating on a sea of un-objective, relative “truths” compounded by the immiseration caused by the apparent imminent collapse of Capitalism and the deindustrialisation which has gone hand in had with globalisation.

There are left wing internet pundits like Rogan and Peterson too - who equally like to mine the treasure of “cult of personality”.

and some flip-flop eg Russel Brand who went from “in your face truth-sayer” to Neocon Christian in a couple of years.

Daniel Pinchbeck has written at length on this BTW if I can find the link I’ll post it.

Paul Virilio said that the “internet would have profound effects on society , the economy and democracy” I think this now becoming unavoidablly true - where go form here is another question.