Thank you for calling me from the shadows, @seki1 😄

We all like to think we make up our own minds. We all like to think we are relatively free of influence. But that is not an honest assessment. The best we can hope for is to foster a skeptical perspective. To try, as @spectrumecons suggests, to tap different resources. But most of our resources are funneled through the same channels. And when information is not funneled through those channels we have to wonder where it comes from. What is the agenda of that source?

It's not easy, and takes a lot of work. My position frankly is that I probably don't know half of what is going on in the world. I live in a bubble very deliberately constructed around me by others, by parties that want to persuade. The Internet is not much help. Who knows what's true there.

Still, we can't give up. We have to struggle to find the truth and then do our best to make a decision. Once we've done that, as @spectrumecons suggests again, we have to be ready to change our minds.

You got a really long answer to your question, @seki1. Ask a former social studies teacher such a question and get ready to be bored. 😆