> phrases like "major company"

Right here. And I think you're not quite getting it if you have to refer to "go on the internet and tell lies"...

Sure plenty of people might be on "social media" and have some idea that people fib, but they aren't necessarily generally "surfing the internet".

To them, saying "the internet tells lies" is comparable to saying "well sometimes, at the grocery store, you buy poison instead of food", and yes, it can happen, but they aren't expecting to need a mass spectrometer and a full lab team to test for food safety... to you know, separate the snake oil grocers from the "good" food vendors.