Can we make it back from misinformation and conspiracy?

I labeled this as US politics but I think this applies more broadly.

We have seen immense misinformation and conspiracy. It's to the point that there are two world views to literally everything that happens. Somehow, objectivity has been pushed to the side. I won't even talk about the most basic news events with anyone but close friends and family for fear that somehow it will be politicized. The conspiratorial thinking has been injected into everything. It's as if certain groups live in entirely different worlds.

But can we be reeled back from all this? It only seems to be accelerating. I am trying to be optimistic. I want to see a path forward for regular discourse and objective truth. I am finding it very hard to see the light.

Has this ever been experienced in the past? On such a large scale? History repeats itself. So what has happened? The internet and connectivity and manipulation of our minds seems a bit unprecedented. But maybe there's a path out of this that has been paved before.

What do you think?