A knowledge of history, unedited video footage of actual events, common sense, scepticism (of everyone, not just the 'enemy').
I've talked to reasonably intelligent programmers who got upset at a politicians speech they'd never heard. All they did was read a paraphrase of it from their favourite media outlet (who happened to be ill-disposed towards said politician).
A lot of the `events` of 2020-2021 were captured on unedited video. Few people I've talked to bothered to watch it. They relied on journalists. Didn't stop them forming a strong opinion though.
And without a knowledge of history (and mine is admittedly basic), you have zero context.
A knowledge of history, unedited video footage of actual events, common sense, scepticism (of everyone, not just the 'enemy').
I've talked to reasonably intelligent programmers who got upset at a politicians speech they'd never heard. All they did was read a paraphrase of it from their favourite media outlet (who happened to be ill-disposed towards said politician).
A lot of the `events` of 2020-2021 were captured on unedited video. Few people I've talked to bothered to watch it. They relied on journalists. Didn't stop them forming a strong opinion though.
And without a knowledge of history (and mine is admittedly basic), you have zero context.