What I do is remind myself that I can be fooled. We all can be. It'd easy to think that because I have a stem degree that I'm above it all - to read about pro

What I do is remind myself that I can be fooled. We all can be. It'd easy to think that because I have a stem degree that I'm above it all - to read about propaganda and think "that's terrible, what can we do to keep _other_ people from falling for propaganda". That's the first trap and it often engulfs us. Everyone is guilty sometimes of sit in a happy bubbles of confirmation bias and rejecting anything that doesn't feel right. Look at yourself first, look at the information you get and if it gives you a happy validated feeling then double-check it, because that might be all its supposed to do. Start with skepticism of your own beliefs, when you talk to other people talk with the acknowledgement that we just don't know what is happening sometimes. And teach - I tell my kids the same thing. You can be fooled, you can be scammed, don't trick yourself into believing you're too smart for it because that's what they want you to believe.