We live in a world filled with everyone’s opinions even if they don’t know why they believe them. In the past people could count of the truthfulness and quality of the news they were reading.
Today, people get most of their news from friends and family. Those people are often in social media silos of information.
For anyone interested in reading current events and headlines from the lens of a historian then I recommend Heather Cox Richardson.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2020