@p pretty much and tbh so many posts on sites like reddit are all garbage. It doesn't help mainstream social media is about fake stories that sound good or appeal to specific crowds, from trust the plan qoomerism to antifa making up over the top stories about killing or assaulting people that sound like American psycho chapters.

It doesn't help that obviously fake planted stories exist all the time to spread hysteria or to discredit the other side. You'll hear leftists fixating on libsoftiktok talking about litter boxes in schools but you'll never them address teachers in schools giving kids hrt behind mom's back (or they'll use that one story to discredit everything like with Project Veritas). Same goes with mattress girl type scandals on the left.