What you're saying is largely true but ET's are an example of irrelevant nonsense as well as mundane lies crowding out truth. In either case we're talking about a varient of Gresham's law (bad money crowds out good). But with Greshams law putting bad money in circulation causes people to hoard the good money. In public discourse falsehood and clickbait simply cause people to not believe anything.
What you're saying is largely true but ET's are an example of irrelevant nonsense as well as mundane lies crowding out truth. In either case we're talking about a varient of Gresham's law (bad money crowds out good). But with Greshams law putting bad money in circulation causes people to hoard the good money. In public discourse falsehood and clickbait simply cause people to not believe anything.