Digital Research

Okay, so we are suppose to be blogging about our opinions on digital research today, but as I cannot focus on our article because I cannot escape the wrath of the election I guess I shall just rant in terms of digital research in regards to elections/politics.
My concern has to do with the amount of false information or use of propaganda in the digital world of the internet as it is a platform where all knowledge (false/truth) is easily accessible.  My fear is that memes have influenced so many people, when statistically they are stemming from a place of pathos not logos.  My fear is that uneducated people are carrying out uneducated research.  My fear is that whatever the research is that it is being read/heard but not truly listened to.  I am reading so much hate from both sides today, but mostly sorrow from those that feel truly affected in their rights as women, sexuality, gender, race, et.
In terms of the debate and the election it's scary how many people I have witnessed on social media use their "digital research" to influence decisions, the research that isn't so much research as it is a quick read over that fulfills an emotional response.  This digital research (or lack thereof) from people on my social media page has me concerned about the accessibility of information, more specifically, false information.
I think overall, it's the idea of knowledge, and mostly of truth.  How do we trust anything really, how do we when we know the writer is biased (even through the most intended objective lens).  This goes for print (the non-digital world), too.  Personally, I enjoy that I get to sift through layers of digital information.  But I am worried as to the amount of people that don't understand what being a researcher really is.