I'm going to throw this link in your general direction - not because I disagree with what you've said, but because this research underpins everything that you're saying. It may be to do with how we collect information than the information itself.

Those people who use whataboutism inadvertantly have a point - though it's not one that they purposefully make.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062022/