Mondomonger, then, becomes less a villain and more a catalyst. It revealed friction points in our information architecture and forced a reckoning over how we assign credibility. The era after Mondomonger is not a return to an imagined golden age of certainty; it is a new, more contested commons where verification is practiced as a craft, not a stamp — a continual, communal labor to keep what we accept as true in alignment with what we can demonstrate to be so.