The result of this system is not truth.
The result of this system is propaganda successful disguised as objectivity...
which is exactly what you need in order to effectively manipulate a democracy.
Yes, and it makes it all the more damning, because it kinda shows we know how logic works, what standards or principles are, but for "social reasons" we can suspend that.
> Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. [..] Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.
-- George Orwell
This now split up into more echo chambers, little "orthodoxies", but the sum of that is not truth either.