Seriously promoting those rules would go a long way towards solving many of the Internet's problems surrounding misinformation and privacy, but would create an

Seriously promoting those rules would go a long way towards solving many of the Internet's problems surrounding misinformation and privacy, but would create an even bigger crisis for the ruling class. The problem is that powerful people don't also want the masses to apply a lens of skepticism to everything they hear coming from them. There is no way for them to promote a message of "don't believe everything you hear" and not have that bite them back hard because people would also apply that rule towards them. This is why attempts to solving "misinformation" have so far been things like "independent fact checkers" and outright censorship.