This is absolutely correct. In my personal case, the vicious censoring in which major internet companies and news sources have indulged recently, made me distrust all COVID information in general. I got vaccinated, but didn't get a booster, and did not wear a mask on a bus during my foreign travels (in that country noone wore masks basically), and as a result, got a fairly bad case of covid in November. I believe that in my specific case if there was no censoring, I would have read up more and have been more vigilant.