which fake is fake

I hear what you're saying. I myself actually bought into the lie that it was only mainstream media that -how shall we say- portrayed stories in a one-sided fashion to fit an agenda. It's not really a new thing now that I think about it, but it was sometime in the middle of the previous year that I started noticing the pattern between both mainstream and media outlets, thus why it's actually a good idea to have only a healthy level of skepticism.

I think the best way to combat this problem it to take a look at the same story from multiple sources, especially when the story itself starts to feel a little sketchy. That's how I managed to get by.