I don't know you, and my goal isn't to impugn your ability to tell fact from fiction or make good judgments on the reality of news. However, speaking in genera

I don't know you, and my goal isn't to impugn your ability to tell fact from fiction or make good judgments on the reality of news. However, speaking in general, people are not as good at determining fact from fiction as they think they are. In general, it is a skill that has to be learned, and we live in a constantly changing media environment where one has to keep in practice and remain aware of what's going on, and what's out there. Personally, I know that I have accidentally fallen for things I believed to be legitimate, but that were not, and as a result, I had to improve how I went about verifying news. If I had relied on my own certainty about being able to judge these things, I would have repeated lies. There's nothing wrong with using an aid day-to-day. The problem only comes when the aid ends up being a crutch, that is, when the point of the filter is to encase you in a bubble, rather than strain out the real crap.