You can make people believe about anything if you put in some work. We are manipulated daily by social media, media, advertising, other people etc. All this new technology does is make it easiee. People will continue to act against their best interest, idolize bad people, and strive to emulate them. The zenith of human evolution is behind us. The so called top minds are now thinking about going post human. A literal upload of consciousness. What kind of chimera bullshit is that? What's the point? Immortality? If you can't be human there is no point in my small mind. But by all means let's put out trust in big tech, surely they will look out for us.
Mark my worst in that this problem of manipulating the populous will be more impactful and important than climate change, population density, energy production etc. It will be the pivotal issue that effects quality of life and distrust in institutions to the point of coup. It's the largest threat as a society we face and it's been happening for longer than most realize.