Western media helped start a war with Irak based on fake weapons of mass destruction.
If people lost trust on Western medias, it's not because of Russians, it's because we are constantly producing propaganda as well. It's just different.
The western media is not a monolith. Fox News was the primary source running the fake WMD story, and is the only mainstream outlet running pro Russian opinion pieces.
They're also foreign owned, and promote policies that would prevent people from voting, allow counts to be ignored.
Since they're Australian, they're not even geographically "western".
Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City.[2][3][4] It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owned by the Fox Corporation.[5]
Fox Corporation (stylized in all-caps as FOX Corporation)[5] is a publicly traded American mass media company operated and controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. Incorporated in Delaware, it was formed in 2019 as a result of the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company
-- We Australians call it an American company, you can't put this one on us!
If people lost trust on Western medias, it's not because of Russians, it's because we are constantly producing propaganda as well. It's just different.