to guard against this do two things, 1. notice when info is presented without citations and is just telling you what you like to hear. 2. pretend you are going to try to prove or argue this position with someone who disagrees with you and look for those hard original sources.
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.
A week ago when I saw a lot of "respected Q influencers" posting Hal Turner shit I knew.
Good points - and we also need to vet these public voices - guarantee a lot of them wouldn't make the cut.
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