The next 5 years will be tech companies panicking and trying to impose social control vs. people becoming more aware of when they are being manipulated by other users (and censored by platforms) and opting out of platforms entirely and/or moving to less controlled platforms. Internet media will be seen like smoking and candy bar consumption are seed today. Some people will eat candy bars every day because they don't care about their health. Others will choose to be healthier and it will happen by increasing awareness rather than heavy handedness.
Maybe its higher quality, but you will essentially get the same type of content you already get on cable. Its content that has the potential to be popular, is bland enough that advertisers don't mind seeing their logo on the content, and is conducive to people buying things that the advertisers are selling.
YouTube is going the way of being just another cable provider. They flirted with the "community" aspect for a while, but in the end decided they care much more about advertisers. Which is fair enough, IMO.
Maybe the algorithm can be adjusted to not promote content that aligns with Russian interests. That way we can ensure people are only seeing the perspectives we want them to.
Interestingly enough, there was thread saying Youtube was censoring searches of "navalnyi" a critic of Putin. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806393