That’s quite a dramatic statement.
Let’s be honest, most of the “research and published stuff” is also crap. The majority is built out of reposting things from those “untrustworthy” places, or from “interviewing experts”, that 9 out of 10 times are tangentially linked to the issue.
News has always been more about entertainment than getting information.
>Instead of researched and published stuff you prefer "news" from unknown sources (including nefarious state actors)
And this is why our world is so messed up now, too many older people believing something just because it was it was in the papers or on TV.
Actually I encountered on tiktok few bits of interesting scientific information I haven't seen anywhere else that when I googled them turned out to be pretty well researched.
For example young Hoatzin birds have wing claws like archeopteryx and use them for climbing branches in unbirdlike manner.
And this in a nutshell is why I don't have hope for your and future generations. Instead of researched and published stuff you prefer "news" from unknown sources (including nefarious state actors)