Rekall is a company that provides memory implants of vacations, where a client can take a memory trip to a certain planet and be whoever they desire.
It’s massive in business environments. It is the lingua franca of business analysis (both back of the napkin analysis, proof of concept and more complicated/involved projects).
It is most definitely not used merely as “glorified visual data storage”.
This is not an internet issue, this is a socio-political issue.
We have yet to figure out new modes of governance, economic relations and political systems that take in account the reality of a society with universal, high quality ICT access.
The fact that it is far easier to spread misinformation is a social issue, not a technological issue. It’s driven by the fact that US technology oligarch only care about engagement and they hold no responsibility for their actions (and cannot be prosecuted due to broad support for corruption and criminality in American society).
This is how we know that the overwhelming majority of “anti woke” posturing in American society is mostly about theatrics and subservience to oligarchs.