Translation: trust us.

It's less about doing research and more about finding reliable information. People have no faith in main stream media and the so called government.

i've found that he is correct most people are incapable to doing their own research, the biggest group that falls prey to this is journalists

How can you decide if something is misinformation if you're not allowed to see it?

The implication being they believe they're smarter than you, statistically speaking half of the population is smarter than the journalist that wrote this.