I know this has been mentioned as a cultural problem in recent years in articles, analyses, etc, but the devaluing of and even sneering/scorn of established journals, of experts, of actual people with firsthand experience, is quite tied to this.
Replace that with every armchair person who conflates their Opinion and Speculation as just as valid as the words coming from actual experts and people educated in these fields, or with years of experience, and it's a real problem.
Our current culture revolves around this notion - that each and every one of is important, worth listening to, should be given attention and 'heard', and whose 'voice' should be given as much weight as the voice of someone who is educated in said subject, and, well, enter the shit show of today.
You have people who consider people who give *opinions* on talk shows to actually be giving 'truth'. No, it's an opinion.
So people who are in fact uninformed, who did not spend 8+ years of post-college grad work or fellowships, can use such fluffy phrases as 'fake news', or emotional techniques such as not answering any questions or challenges at all and citing 'bias' from the other as a legitimate reason to not answer any questions, you have people who shamelessly state they are the most rational person here, they are the most x, y, z, and so on.... all psychological deflection and mumbo jumbo. And of course these sorts of inane responses and tactics are used by Trump as well - so it's easy to see how supporters will further support someone who validates their own tendencies. [As if anyone who actually held X trait would boast of it. Boasting is a sure sign of it not being true.]
Or your run of the mill folks who are just rolling with the times... If people are inundated with tens of millions of people trying to be 'heard' and wanting their videos, or memes, or any nonsense, to go viral, and if culturally people are simultaneously instructed to tiptoe around anyone voicing an opinion because 'everyone has a right to be heard', well, that's why we're here. Until culturally we are dialed back again to 'Nope, all of you fools are not worth my time and do not deserve an equal amount of bandwidth as these experts over here', we're going to be rolling around in this crap for a while.