That's not how I interpreted it at all. I interpreted him as basically saying meaningless pub banter is now killed entirely. Because someone is going to pull out their phone and check, and that ruins the train of thought and the conversation. It pulls everyone out of it. Not that he can't confidently bullshit.
The thing is, if you are not bullshitting too much, people will stop fact checking you. Because most of their searches will check out and that is boring. However, if people fact check you constantly and find you are saying bs, they are doing it on purpose - because they do not like that you bs so often.