> there's no way to easily know Usually, I go to a source that I trust such as a particular news organization or an actual .gov site in order to verify. Then,

> there's no way to easily know Usually, I go to a source that I trust such as a particular news organization or an actual .gov site in order to verify. Then, I check another source that I trust. Definitely annoying, but it only takes a minute or two. Honestly. It’s interesting that you say that it should be behind a .gov or a particular TLD. Have you ever tried to reclaim “lost” money/property from your state’s treasury department? Those sites usually don’t have .gov or a specific TLD either. For example, for Massachusetts the site is https://findmassmoney.com https://findmassmoney.com. It does seem questionable initially lol. But it only took a minute for me to verify that this is the site that the state government site “mass.gov” links to. I can’t word this properly now but I wonder if the purpose of the url (similar to marketing strategies) is to get as many people to go to the site as possible.