This idea that somehow search engines _can_ arbitrate "truth" is just so… not how any of this works or could even conceivably work.

The reason that search engines "backstop" with wikipedia is because wikipedia is a giant curated and mostly-audience-appropriate collection of knowledge.

Knowing what is "true" is so incredibly nontrivial.

@hrefna lol 100% truth. Find me a Knowledge Panel on Google that isn't basically a straight rip from Wikipedia - doesn't exist.
@developit @hrefna r/FuckCars did it a few times, Google were instead pulling the "knowledge" from oil propaganda think tanks instead.