[Quinzel]

> there's no one place i can go to that i trust on the web anymore besides… wikipedia maybe.

There is Google scholar - where if you’re being pedantic, you can check impact factors of journals, the credentials of the author’s etc.

I wouldn’t have ever thought of any social media (Facebook, twitter, reddit, Quora etc) as ever being a one place you could trust for reliable information. Social media, and acquiring actual knowledge are quite fundamentally different. The internet makes knowledge more accessible sure, but that has never meant it was trustworthy. I don’t think the Internet has ever replaced the need to educate oneself properly. Even the news throughout history has been plagued with propaganda and therefore hasn’t always been necessarily reliable, it was just communicated differently back then.