The right and far right in the western world, putin, China and other bad actors are actively conducting vigorous disinformation campaigns and have been for years, resulting in wild bullshit conspiracies, open attacks on western style democracy and concerted attacks on fact, science and progressive thinking. It's not thinking critically when your foundations are pure lies. So sure, free to choose your sources but if you're willing to believe in conspiracies you can be open to the fact that you're being played. Facts are independent of you and i