It sounds like you're in the habit of deciding what to believe based on evidence. This will serve you well. But it also sounds like you're in the habit of getting that evidence from people who stand to gain from changing your mind—people like subordinates, entrepreneurs, marketers, politicians, and influencers. In time, you will find that this will serve you less well, because selective choices of evidence can make a fairly convincing case for most things that aren't true.

Probably if you investigate the question you will come to the same conclusion I did; I don't have any special access to non-public evidence. Maybe you won't, which is fine with me. I don't have anything to sell you, so your opinion doesn't really affect me.