> I have recently found that I can't trust most of the things written on the internet anymore. Every piece of writing is suspect and that's incredibly tiring.
To be fair, magazines and newspapers have always had "sponsored content" or "native advertisement" (whatever you wanna call it) and we managed.
Yes, but suspecting that every article has an unstated source of influence other than author's own opinion is the whole new level of paranoia. Articles throwing lavish praise at some particular corporation are the easiest - just dismiss them. But when there is no evident source of influence, my mind races to build a mini-conspiracy theory - who is trying to tell me this and why? As I've said, tiring.
To be fair, magazines and newspapers have always had "sponsored content" or "native advertisement" (whatever you wanna call it) and we managed.