This site is for us to share our research with others. "Always verify" makes sense as a precaution, but "Do your own research" just sounds lazy and really isn't helpful.
Not everyone can "monitor the situation" to the degree of rigor that thorough research requires. Many are still waging a daily war of just trying to survive among crippling debt and overwhelming inflation. Some use GAW simply to help filter out the excess noise on X (since most posts here are just reposts of stuff from X anyway).
Please be mindful that many are not as blessed with their free time as you might be.
Question everything, even what you read here. Form a hypothesis and look for proof supporting it and challenging it. Follow flight trackers, conflict maps, finance, and read Trumps executive orders and know what they mean legally. There isn't much you can't put together from those four things. If you just consume information you're just like the brain dead that watch mainstream news.