I’m not sure if this is good news or bad but it’s the same damn problem since 380BCE

Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

• Plato

This was interesting, thanks for sharing.

The Elements of Eloquence is a fantastic read.