Digging deeply into anything requires time and focus most people won't put in if they have any choice at all. We have far greater means to temporally cross-ref

Digging deeply into anything requires time and focus most people won't put in if they have any choice at all. We have far greater means to temporally cross-reference media now than at any other point in history, and yet most news outlets outright abitually lie about publicly available information. We vastly overestimate how much people care whether things are true or false.