Two-thirds of Americans think the country is more divided than usual

Worse, it's high trust in certain contexts and low critical thinking overall. Here are comments recently told to me in personal conversation:

The U.S. doesn't produce oil any more.

The U.S. spends $1.232 trillion dollars a month on the war in the Ukraine.

The U.S. has open borders.

Californian politicians want to abolish the police.

The BLM movement killed thousands and thousands of people.

Southern California cities are already below sea level.

The New York Times is owned by Mexico.

There are no police in California and you can commit pedophilia without punishment.

5Million migrants from Honduras are marching towards our border.

The Governor of Virginia want to legalize infanticide.

The luxury tax applies to tampons: "The same rate as a yacht, you mean?", Yes.

The only thing kids learn about George Washington in schools is that he was a slave owner.

The last one was something not heard in conversation but said by Elon Musk in an interview with Bill Maher.

Whenever I hear someone say the above I usually respond "I don't know much about that story, but that sounds like total bullshit". What I don't understand is how people claim low trust in the media but believe anything a culture-war shit-kicker says on Twitter.