It is, but the information that you need to either create information of your own, or directly make important decisions against is often of either of a controllable size, or addressable with a reliability variable that turns hard numbers that may be wrong into ranges that could be right.

Information warfare is all around us, has been for a long time too. This article proves it once more and hopefully wef fans will ask themselves if their tribe is actually doing good (but I doubt it, we'll probably see some doubling down through normalization).

All we can do is control our controllables, know when we're making assumptions and find where we are fed bullcrap, intentionally or otherwise. Country rankings is of course a logical prime candidate for informational warfare. I wouldn't be surprised if the spook's handbook, eurostat and the OECD do the same, but hopefully for them with a bit more finesse.