Your answer is nuanced, but the original comment said something along the lines of "authorities have been always lying" which is a blanket statement that remind

Your answer is nuanced, but the original comment said something along the lines of "authorities have been always lying" which is a blanket statement that reminded me of some conspiracy theorists I talked with so I had to ask a couple of questions that could reveal that. You offered "most politicians are liars", it is a better description but still not quite useful-- I'd go as far as to say "all humans are liars" is true as well because there's probably not a single human that hadn't lied at some point; the key is what the lies are and what's the intent. "Many politicians act in bad faith" could be a more useful statement. > and true information doesn't necessarily spread faster than false information It definitely doesn't. I believe there're studies that shown it to be demonstrably the case. What spreads well is a story, and a story is always a subjective and selective interpretation of facts, and as any good journalist will tell you two different interpretations of the same factual info can prompt two diametrically opposing opinions (even if they never technically lie, they can intentionally or not omit/deemphasize parts of the story, choose what to report and so on).