Well, you started off strong, but went off the rails.

There is not a single society in the history of mankind that was not built on a foundation of lies. It's a matter of what the lies were. You may be surprised to learn that sacrificing virgins does not quell the Gods and Goddesses. It may also astonish you to find out that most of the kings and queens of antiquity and today are not selected by Gods. And slavery was very likely, not God's intended station for the slave. Right up to the current day, where we're in "shocked disbelief" to find that markets are not self-regulating.

Now I know that I'm taking some liberties with these examples, as I can't claim to have communed with the Gods and Goddesses to determine their positions for instance, but I feel pretty confident in asserting the tenuous nature of many of these claims of divine providence.

When you say no one can build a better society on a foundation of lies, I disagree. Our societies have been getting better and better throughout history and the architects of these societies haven't stopped lying yet. We're still lying to this day. Even the people who don't like the lies are only comfortable replacing the current lies with lies more friendly to their own worldviews.

Better societies, and worse societies, will all be built on a foundation of lies, today and in the future. Because they are built by humans, who are at root, liars. We can't change that fact. I'm afraid lies and lying are central to who we are. Show me a human who claims to not lie nor support lies, and I'll show you a liar.\

Should we try to detect lies? Absolutely. But we should be careful that we don't get too far off the statement of facts. Which unfortunately tends to also be problematic, because most people only state facts that support their worldview. A notorious form of lying via omission. So even in stating facts, we're nearly always lying.

So getting to a balanced presentation and evaluation of facts where humans are concerned, is nearly always impossible.

I would argue that lies are inevitable, but in a modern society with somewhat democratized messaging, it is harder to keep them in a "saintly", foundational status.

State religions and state ideologies such as North Korean juche were easier to maintain in the pre-Internet era.

Nowadays, nonsense will get called out by people who aren't official "opinion makers". Which makes it harder to get some collection of lies established as orthodoxy, much less for generations.

Yes. In other words, it's hard to impose a Tyranny on a society if Free Speech is allowed. Tyranny requires control over speech, to brainwash people into the belief that the Tyrants are "good for them", and so the first thing any Tyrannical Gov't wants to do is control speech.