Sadly enough, there is no solution for that problem.

That has to do with humans and with the amount of obligations they have in life. The most obvious solution would be education, improved and higher education levels for all.

But, even educated and smart people also enjoy easygoing, not challenging content. Where social media has democratized the creation, and propagation, of such the problem has always existed and arguably in much worse forms: centralized media.

Most media organizations have a political position and thus bias. While that bias may not show in news coverage, it often shows in the topics they select to cover and the type of specialists they invite to talk/write about those topics. Even history channel has been know to romantize topics.

Because humans like being entertained and many refer, after a day of hard work, easy content over difficult topics. Whether more easy content - and thus pseudo truth - is found on social media than in centralized systems is debatable. News Corp and many a tabloid do not excel at fact-checking either, they do excel at pushing an editorial agenda and thus influencing their audience though.

Despots and demagogues cleverly make use of that as well.

But it is true that social media has made the consumption of “much content” much easier, and also cheaper, than before. At least the consumption of headlines.