Your response may have made sense two decades ago, but the net and the world have changed. All major media has devolved from a leftward bias to outright Leftist propaganda. The tech companies are in collusion with them to stamp out any dissent. Using any major search engine, and relying on major media is equivalent to using Snopes to verify the truth.
Using your standard, Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election, Hillary was a saint, and Antifa members are peaceful as Quakers.
Yup. All that 'standard' tells you is what the official line of propaganda is.
Name one reliable source that has repeated this story.