We've been there for a while. Most people get their news from social media networks that persistently funnel users into content silos that validate and reinforce their beliefs, and even traditional news outlets fall prey to biased and forced narratives all the time. Paid propagandists and bot farms have been adding noise for several years. You have to take everything with a grain of salt unless it's verifiable through citations from primary sources or references to data sources for statistical analyses, which are rare to find on news websites (although they are better at filtering out false rumors) and even rarer on popular social media networks that favor short-form text content. I feel like skepticism and critical thinking are trending in response, but that might just be my filter bubble.

Negative several years.

It's fake art made by pouring a bunch of images into an algorithmic hopper and spitting out something vaguely like them without paying a single cent to anyone whose data was grabbed for this abuse of fair use, at a huge cost of power hidden away from the user.