You don't seem to really be contradicting my point. You're just assuming that the 'good guys' don't lie while the others are the 'bad guys' who obviously do lie.

There are indeed fighting propaganda with counter-propaganda, which is an age old strategy. They do seem to have adapted it for our era of instant communication and social media.

Now, working out the facts in any given situation is not always easy. Everyone tends to spin things, or to omit things, or to simply make things up...