1) Strip out the facts from anything you are seeing/hearing. Most of the misinformation is a lot of emotion, exaggeration, and spin. If you can read critically

1) Strip out the facts from anything you are seeing/hearing. Most of the misinformation is a lot of emotion, exaggeration, and spin. If you can read critically and remove facts from fluff, you are most of the way there. 2) Fact-check those facts. If they are true, use critical thought to see if everything else that has been said actually follows from the facts or not. And if they are false... well, then anything that follows from it is likewise false. Don't trust the volume of what you hear. The core principle of getting people to believe you instead of the truth is "Lie often and loudly... say it enough and people believe it." Likewise, disregard the entire concept of "Fake News". While prior to a decade ago, it was a useful term, in recent years it has become a weasel word to get people to dismiss a story without researching it. Check the facts.