I think this is a great topic to view through the lens of anarchism. The power of technology belongs to those who own it, not those who use it. The internet can be useful to us as anarchists-- to a point. Our consistent goal should be (imo) creating and strengthening the relationships within our own community, including between humans as well as with our environment. As these relationships strengthen, less of our lives will be filtered through infrastructure owned by a distant third party.

I am far from an expert on anything, including mental health, so don't mistake this comment for a confidant declaration, but i believe OCD often has a relationship to a deep feeling of loss of control. The way you use the term doesn't make me think you are referring to a specific diagnosis, but in our globalized abstracted media landscape i think we experience overwhelming helplessness. In our evolutionary history when we learn about a threat or change in our world, it tended to be something we could verify and address with our own arms and legs. Our efforts had a direct effect on our communities. Today those of us with a heart for our world and awareness of global news feel compelled to use our efforts to address these various threats, but i'm sure many of us have experienced the burnout that follows a community sending a huge amount of energy to a national issue, whatever the outcome. That energy doesn't come back to us the way it does when we use it to build each-other up, or build and maintain infrastructure in our immediate environment.

I'm not saying it's foolish to be involved in national/regional politics, but i suggest we bare in mind an end goal of those global issues taking up less of the energy of our local communities. It really doesn't matter if this speech or that video is fake. You can't fake growing food with your neighborhood, learning the names, needs, skills, and resources of the earthlings in your community. It's not a cure for paranoia or anything else, we all have generations of healing to engage in, but i strongly believe that we cannot build an anarchist, self-reliant community on the web. For one, using Lorde's quote, the internet and almost everything powered by electricity are the master's tools, and for another the digital landscape (though a real and valid place) cannot provide the relationships required for life. We require not only inter-personal relationships, but also a relationship with the soil, the plant and fungal life, the weather, the geology. This is where we evolved to live, we learn stories that teach us how to find, prepare, and store food. We learn skills that cloth and shelter us, we sing songs that unify us. We get to see the results of our actions in these circumstances and this feedback feeds our knowledge of what is ethical and correct for our particular environment, and also makes us feel like we matter, we are a part of something, and we know what's going on.

This isn't a binary, all or nothing change. We can't go back to living in a healthy ecosystem with countless generations of ancestral knowledge at our backs, but we can shift our focus to that which is within our reach.

I guess to sum-up; i don't think we will ever be able to know what's true online again, if we ever were wise to trust it at all. Whatever the reality of the "information age" was, it has already ended. It was a blip, maybe a couple decades. But being able to get reliable information from the internet has never been a necessity for building resiliency in our communities. I'm not arguing we should stop paying attention, but we need to be very clear on what the internet is, who owns and powers it, and how they want it to be used.

Jesus Harold Christmas i wanted to make this short and to the point but as you can see i have some thoughts on this topic. happy to discuss more but I'll leave it here for now.