Google is a 25-year-old advertising company. Roughly 80% of their revenue is still ads. Every major disruption to search (AI) is an existential threat to their core business. They're in the strange position of having to disrupt themselves.
That is pattern-matching cultural anxieties onto a convenient set of villains.
I would argue that what you are actually experiencing is the hyper-visibility of low-trust behaviour through social media not a genuine structural collapse.
high trust societies are only possible when the average IQ of a society is above a certain threshold.
you can hope to have one with hordes of migrants from low trust cultures the same way you can hope to flap your arms and fly, nice dreams but impossible