@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine
Dunno, agree there's weird goings on.
Do know that our awareness of such things is heightened by social media -- feeds on hype -- and mainstream media chasing SM.
Reporters were always hungry for content; everyone is now potentially a reporter deranged with mostly imagined starvation.

When I taught it my first rule of information literacy was: Get good at filtering.
Corollary of this, get good at suppressing FOMO.
Ignorance ain't bliss but it's a start.