It's pretty easy to use a microcosm of the web as a 'sampler' of internet issues:

This thread, for example. People write in with news items but mostly they are: "I heard" items.

If we care not to be misinformed, we need a filter for most things these days.

My filter is multiple sources. Among them, the New York Times, public broadcasting, the BBC, DW, and certain posts from certain people.

There are also negative filters. Some posters are reliable sources of misinformation.

THIS IS NOT NEW. It's just the most recent incarnation of same old same old.