That about sums it up honestly, this is the hard problem of the information age and there's no easy answers. Which is why it's so frustrating to see people arguing for totally unrestricted speech, I completely understand the desire, if it worked that would be ideal. But taking this stance requires plugging your ears to the harms and the fact that the lizard brain is not prepared for this. You are not immune to propaganda, to advertising, to emotional manipulation, to disinformation -- no one is. And the certainty that you are is what makes you vulnerable to it. You become your own conman and convince yourself. Being clever and persuasive is a detriment because you deploy all the logic and reason at your disposal to against yourself and your guard is down because the call is coming from inside the house.

This shit is only gonna get worse, the internet isn't getting smaller and the attacks are getting larger and more sophisticated. I genuinely don't know what the right course is because even education isn't it. A defense against the dark arts class won't do it because knowing how it works only helps a little in identifying when it's happening to you. People who join cults know they're in cults and it doesn't stop them. You still need the deprogramming after. This whole situation is awful and one giant mess.