What specific claims are wild and impossible to disprove? I didn't see anything of that in the above statement. Only, don't rely on once source for your information. Also the article, paired with the tone of this site, causes me to second guess the premise because it looks like this site writes a lot of sensation pieces, similar to daily mail which does in fact, skew the facts to get people to be polarized. There is an article on Wikipedia banning source information from Daily Mail [1] that you would do well to read as this site seems to fall right under that spectrum.
> The authoritarian elitist crowd doesn't seem to like it when the unwashed masses develop these skills; they'd prefer to have a population of brainwashed zombies who get all their propaganda from a government-provided list of 'acceptable sources' and who don't have the cognitive capacities and practical skills needed to independently test claims for veracity.
That is true, but this particular author is from F.I.R.E. - a nonprofit free speech advocacy group. You can probably assume that such a group would present a particular kind of opinion.
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia...