Growing distrust, corruption, greed, tribalism, and ignorance plague our modern society, and one can only assume it's going to get far worse.
For sourcing and further reading:
How Many Stories Do Newspapers Publish Per Day? by Meyer
Decline in Readers, Ads Leads Hundreds of Newspapers to Fold by Bauder and Lieb
What ‘Deepfakes’ Are and How They May Be Dangerous by Shao
U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided by Jurkowitz et al.
Charts: America’s Political Divide, 1994–2017 by Ghosh
Political Insults In American Politics Are As Old As the Republic by Rubino