I agree with this viewpoint. A lot.

'We should question that information regardless of how we feel about it or, if it makes a mockery of what we believe.'

I think so very much, but that's the hardest thing to do too.

I think one of the biggest problems we have today, moreso than any news being "fake" is that we consume way more news than we have need of. Like you said. We're overwhelmed with useless or near useless information, and we process it at such a rate that it's not much use to us besides that we might could recite an unverified quote or two.

To truly understand anything in full reality, you have to have lived it. We can't live everywhere and in everything that happens all at once. No one can. So we all have skewed viewpoints, and the more information we become swamped with the weaker our truth filters become. And the more likely we are to forget that we should even use them. This is scary and real. One of the biggest problems of our day. We seem to know so much and in truth so little all at the same time.