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uhhh… i would respond differently to your rhetorical question…

there’s never been greater distrust of legacy media, and the fact that you can’t trust everything you read on the internet has been a trope for decades

Good point.

Maybe it's a useful thing to ponder why faked photoshopped pictures were never a big problem in human life. I think maybe it's because we use a lot of pictures in our lives, sure. But ultimately we have so much context that a fake would be easy to detect and therefore irrelevant. At most people used photoshop to alter images of documents.

Becoming good enough at Photoshop to do a convincing face swap was something that took a lot of time and skill. Not everyone with a copy of Photoshop had the ability to create a compromising photo of a politician, for example.

Should written language not exist as well? We can never say for sure that the words are true