Online Public Relations Thoughts

How is it that an open-and-shut case of political violence can spawn lies and misinformation almost immediately?   That is the case of the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband by a hammer-wielding assailant.   It is a warning to communicators everywhere that no one is safe any longer even by appealing to facts.  With conspiracy theories prevailing, facts are mutable, evidence discounted and eyewitness testimony disparaged.  There is no good solution to the situation other than to repeat the truth and hope a majority of citizens accept it.  Journalists have a particularly rough time.  They hew to standards that have been thrown aside by large numbers of people who pursue theories down rabbit holes of lies and echo themselves on the internet.  Perhaps as discourse matures, prevarication will moderate but until it does, it is not a good time to be a communicator.