Unfortunately, this is not necessarily a positive sign, because what we see is what some scholars have referred to as trust compression, where people see any strike against a source as disqualifying it completely. What this means, of course, is that there is no sense that any sources are reliable. If a source has to be absolutely unimpeachable before it can be seen as a reliable source, it becomes impossible for us to have any shared sense of what is true, which makes it impossible to have any kind of civic discussion.
It's just a generational quality. It is also the impact of AI. It has had a corrosive effect of leading people to doubt things and cast doubt on things that are true, because it has become so easy to create convincing false content.
