Perhaps it's not increasing?

What if it is constant, but as information from more than one source becomes available as the internet branches out we can actually see the misinformation as it happens.

This is why I don't trust History as a whole. It didn't have the same filter we have now. What was written was written and could be extremely biased or warped and we can't actually know for sure unless there were multiple sources on the same information when it happened.

Something similar happened with the kid in the Maga hat standing ground and the native beating his drum and the black israelites standing behind them. That story got messed up.