I'm fascinated by this discussion.
We seem to be looking for an arbiter somewhere along the line. What would that system look like?
I remember somebody tweeted out, back in 2018 or sometime, something about Colin Kaepernick getting an endorsement from Nike, while Nike paid their workers only 20¢. Snopes then did a fact check on that and they said that was incorrect and that Nike actually pays their employees 68¢ per hour, which was still ridiculous. The point was still made, but Snopes said that it was an incorrect statement.
How do we manage that? How do we build a trusted entity?
I think Snopes lost a lot of credibility when it said that.