In real life, Alex just skims tweets, and then he gets mad about them. I mean, it's not hard to think you know everything when all you're doing is looking at shitheads on Twitter.

Yeah, there is something to be said about a stream of passive information completely ruining your ability to actively search for information.

This is Alex's relationship with information, just like in a nutshell. He sees claims and memes on social media, and then they say the things that he wants to believe, so he reports them to his audience as truth. It's just a pathetic state of affairs.