Unfortunately we're living in an era where trust in institutions has collapsed, so we don't have the touchstones to say what's true and what's not.
You could watch as over a year the MAGA crowd bought into the claim that birthright citizenship was not actually in the Constitution, based in part on the words of "experts" who were all too happy to tell them what they wanted to year, confirming their biases.
This is a major theme of the post-COVID era so far.