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Where the info comes from doesn't exactly change that it's a problem.
You can talk about media literacy, but why even have the thing exist if it can't provide correct answers. That's its only reason for existing.
You seem to be one of the very people I'm complaining about. The point of a search engine absolutely is not to spoon feed you correct answers. It's to find information on the internet that's relevant to a topic. There's lots of wrong information on the internet and it's not a search engine's job to decide for you what's right and what's wrong.
Nobody is saying otherwise. The problem being discussed here is that search engines present themselves as "deciding what's right and wrong" and present themselves as "spoon feeding correct answers". If we really want to improve media literacy, we can begin by advocating for our search tools to not misrepresent the presentation of their data.