You say this but I have a ton of experience that "can lead" and "there is" come with a gigantic pile of caveats to the extent that they appear to be more false than true. Or they're technically true but practically meaningless. The world has been utterly awash in mass-perpetuated misinformation for at least all of recorded history without any real ability to stem the onslaught. This is not a modern problem just because a modern technology also exhibits it.

You should look up the percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts sometime. About as many people believe in ghosts as don't, so no matter which side you land on, the other side is enormous. One of the sides must be wrong, I won't claim which, though only the belief side fails a falsifiability check. Where's our accountability to believing and spreading ideas based in reality again? The believers believe because they learned about it from someone. It didn't happen spontaneously on its own.

It's all just been memes the entire time.