1. Probably, but not provably. 2. Almost certainly, but perhaps not necessarily. 3. Most likely false 4. IDK/C 5. It originated from lies, but found truths

1. Probably, but not provably. 2. Almost certainly, but perhaps not necessarily. 3. Most likely false 4. IDK/C 5. It originated from lies, but found truths in the process. 6. Probably not, causal links are hard to establish 7. True The "problem" with the questions they asked, is that short pithy statements like these lack all form of nuance and so cannot fully encapsulate what is actually reality. They only contain a distilled perception of that reality through a particular set of biases. For the most part, nothing in life is that simple, and therefore simple statements are often not actually factual, because they miss critical nuance and detail to make them so. Ironically, if you read my answers above, you likely think I'm right-wing adjacent based on them, but in fact I am politically left-of-center, I either didn't have enough information to answer conclusively, or I have investigated these topics so thoroughly that I am aware that it's not very clear cut. For instance, several of these relate to recent issues from the former administration in the US... I've read the Mueller Report, somehow despite being rather thorough, very different pithy perspectives are arrived at from the contents by various partisans. I think the article has a point, but I think the bigger issue is that most people only have the attention span and mental acuity necessary to deal in soundbites, whether that's from the Internet, cable news, or newspaper headlines doesn't really matter. It's not the medium that's the issue, it's that the average person expends no mental energy whatsoever on actually understanding the topics they hold forth opinions on. I've always tried to be someone with strong opinions, loosely held, and open to evidence and reason. Unfortunately the average person is somebody with weak opinions, strongly held, and closed to evidence and reason. The Internet didn't cause this, this is just how human beings generally are, the world over, and throughout history.