The part of the story suggesting that only the rich could afford fact checkers to understand reality is wrong because they won't know which fact checkers are go

The part of the story suggesting that only the rich could afford fact checkers to understand reality is wrong because they won't know which fact checkers are good. At best, you can only hire fact checkers on the basis that they have consensus with some other fact checkers. This doesn't guarantee correctness. Most of the information we see are lies and their opposites, which are mostly lies as well. The opposite of a lie is not necessary the truth, it could just be a different lie.