> It's similar a phenomenon attributed to news: it's confident, and sounds plausible until the topic is on something you know, then you realize it's full of errors.

Reminds me of the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" (as penned by Michael Crichton):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

In short: trusting a source on topics you're unfamiliar with, but when the source talks about topics you are familiar with, you realize it's full of errors, but then turn the page and then trust it again on further topics you're unfamiliar with.