Skepticism. Always be skeptical of everything. Make attempts to disprove all new information and always ask who benefits from said info. Often enough a lie is told using the truth and the truth is told using s lie. During the COVID hysteria I saw a number of articles that flirted with outright lies but everything in them was technically true. The trick was that emotive language would be used to strongly imply something with a very quiet debunking of its own arguments. Best one was "the COVID vaccine might not stop you catching covid and it might not stop you spreading it but it's probably the best protection you can get" The article outright tells you the vaccine is fucking useless but still convinces you with emotive language that you should take it anyway because it's "probably" the best protection "you can get", plausible deniability along with the fact that better protection wasn't made available.
Skepticism. Always be skeptical of everything. Make attempts to disprove all new information and always ask who benefits from said info.
Often enough a lie is told using the truth and the truth is told using s lie. During the COVID hysteria I saw a number of articles that flirted with outright lies but everything in them was technically true. The trick was that emotive language would be used to strongly imply something with a very quiet debunking of its own arguments. Best one was "the COVID vaccine might not stop you catching covid and it might not stop you spreading it but it's probably the best protection you can get"
The article outright tells you the vaccine is fucking useless but still convinces you with emotive language that you should take it anyway because it's "probably" the best protection "you can get", plausible deniability along with the fact that better protection wasn't made available.
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