>People have to realize

This is how I see it as well. We, collectively, are confronted with the reality that clean information is required for a healthy civic function.

Maybe like the Broad Street Pump cholera outbreak rectified unsanitary civic water management?

>We, collectively, are confronted with the reality that clean information is required for a healthy civic function.

I feel the opposite. We must learn to filter that news for ourselves, because you never know when the news is lying to you.

Yes, in the meantime that you and I and the rest of our politically and technologically savvy demographic are exercising our darwinian news filtering improvement capacity, millions of less globally aware, less up-to-date and less capable, given other more present temporal, logistical and emotional burdens, are still going to vote with whatever news filtering skills they have at the moment

I agree that the problem is that filtering out the truth is hard, but creating an arbiter of truth also has many other problems. Whoever gets control over the arbiter can shape the truth top their liking. Right now what we view as the truth as a society is shaped by the sum of everyone speaking out, but if you think you know better then you can simply override it. Others might disagree, but you're still encouraged to think for yourself rather than rely on someone else.

Index asked for support, they got support: https://tamogatas.index.hu/

Didn't matter.

They got support, but the editors didn't own the site, so the main editor could be dismissed by some representative of the owner.

It's a different situation if the editors are owners of the site and the donations go directly to them, instead of to some rich guy who bought the site from some other rich guy.