At some point, it becomes very powerful to at the very least realize that there is in fact a provable psychological warfare going on complete with highly funded mainstream literal deceptive propaganda the likes of which we haven't witnessed since WWII. In some ways, you have already won in just that realization alone.

Keep this in mind as things progress. Take note how the media with powerful corporate funding attempts to shift narratives and make claims and 'sway' opinions using emotional manipulations among other methods. just like they demonstrably have already in the last few years. Some of us here, haven't even watched the extent of how bad the propaganda had gotten in mainstream because we were already looking outside of it and within ourselves for some answers to the confusion. Not saying you should, but if you feel inclined, check out some of the baseline propaganda that was released on people that can now be seen much more clearly only a year or two later. here's one example direct from the new york times. Australia had even worse propaganda than this that you have to dig for now.

(also take note how the emphasis is put on this being "OPINION" based all so they can lie a whole lot and then later backtrack on it saying it was just opinion based on what we thought we knew at the time) excuse maker