For me the worst part of that is progressing destruction of trust. People keep running into things like that all the time, for me previous case was being assig

For me the worst part of that is progressing destruction of trust. People keep running into things like that all the time, for me previous case was being assigned a completely fake quote in some local news website (luckily, they had neither my name nor photo). If someone is unsure why some people claim that global warming is fake, smog is not harmful and so on - that is because we have far too many lies and people willing to defend clear liars. As result many people flail looking for trustworthy data source. And typically end with even worse, but for many distinction was not clear.