In a way it doesn't matter what governments say, because they aren't sharing the real-time satellite feeds with me. Without those (and an army of analysts under my command), how am I even ever able to figure out what is true and what is false?

People that claim to know "the news" (or really just almost anything about things they haven't seen themselves (and even that goes wrong a lot)) typically don't know a whole lot.

My first thought is that perhaps Russian trolls would find it easier to share misinformation here and in a way there is no point in not believing the story from the guy that's controlling the army of the land you live in.