There's a very interesting and subtle shift of the perception of what truth and facts are in the last ten-fifteen years. A friend once said to me, years ago, "Google is my memory".

I'm not even remotely qualified to untangle the issues, but fundamentally it seems the problem is that truth is being mediated by the electronic systems "I feel lucky" rather than critically analyzed. It's similar to the old newspaper mediation of truth, but far more widespread.