Agreed 100%. The new problem is that the truth is distorted, obfuscated, and perverted, even by the public seeking it. Point in case Twitter's "Community Notes": everyone with a bias presents their own version of truth, sometimes not even sanctioned "truth" by those that create it in the psyop labs.

In my own research, I have to find at least four different sources for any data I dare to present, even though I dread that I might have been misled.