Is the right wing media's manipulation of identity politics actually intersted in the truth?

(Disclaimer: Since I do not know much about the right wing media and I do not much fact checking myself, I am just going to assume that the right wing media is wrong concerning identity politics in this Blog entry.)

I do not know whether the right wing media is actually interested in the truth. Of course, at least in the case of big TV platforms like Fox News, money might be involved in publishing right wing statements. But there might also be another reason for the right wing media to draw the conclusions they draw: The hardships concerning knowing what is true and what is not.

The chance that Fox News is influenced by financial interests is high. Fox News is probably, at least partly, financed by corporations. Furthermore, there are a lot of people in America who have values that are more conservative than those represented by the mainstream media, which makes representing those values in public a lucrative business model.

But the financial aspect might only be a part behind the right wing people's views. Maybe it also has something to do with the fact that people have problems with sorting out what is true and what is not. Today, there are all kinds of different platforms with different opinions, especially on social media and YouTube. One hears all different kinds of claims from all different kinds of sources. And this might not just be a problem for the consumers of the news media but also for the people working in this sector. This possiblility becomes especially important when we do not look at big Platforms like Fox News but on the kind of right wing media that is probably not financed by anybody aside from its viewers (right wing YouTube channels for instance).

The problem with this high number of  different news sources is the following: Almost nobody has the time to fact check everything he/she hears and almost nobody is educated enough to be able to really find out what is 100% true information. This situation makes a lot of people, including some people belonging to right wing, just believe what he/she wants to believe.