I call this the “disinformation age”. It’s very disturbing, this era of fake news. Twitter is terrible about spreading foreign and domestic sourced misinformation, disinformation, and outright propaganda. I’m not totally convinced we’re any better informed than your average Chinese “citizen”.
That’s exactly right, and it has become impossible to converse with people fed only the official news. Nothing wrong with a difference of opinion, but when the facts themselves aren’t known (however one feels about them), there is no point.