HN is social media.

The church was responsible for making sure that useful lies were the only legal source of truth for millennia. Now it's the fault of a website?

The conventional media seems to have a huge axe to grind about social media, presumably because it's affected their own influence and prestige, which has warped people's perception of reality a tad. For example, there was a BBC article a while back that made it on to here aboutt how the UK was supposedly at risk of a measles outbreak because vaccination rates had dropped due to Facebook misinformation - except if you actually looked into the details, it turned out those childhood MMR vaccination rates were only down a fraction of a percent from the all-time high. The bigger danger that our medical experts were worried about was all the adults who hadn't gotten vaccinated as kids decades ago due to Wakefield, long before social media or most people had internet access, and the BBC was of course one of the main organisations that spread those claims.