Problems of relying on the internet to preserve scholarship and knowledge

Just read a disturbing essay in The Atlantic by a law professor on the topic of the instability of knowledge as supposedly preserved on the internet. His conclusion:

"Society can’t understand itself if it can’t be honest with itself, and it can’t be honest with itself if it can only live in the present moment. It’s long overdue to affirm and enact the policies and technologies that will let us see where we’ve been, including and especially where we’ve erred, so we might have a coherent sense of where we are and where we want to go."

Jonathan Zittrain, "The Internet Is Rotting," The Atlantic (June 30, 2021, available at 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

I recommend this article....