Add critical thinking and logic lessons to school curriculum. Issue would be solved in about a generation but governments and large companies would hate that.

That will never happen in this country. The truth of the situation is, one political party benefits from this ignorance way more than the other, and they are protecting their investment in keeping the electorate ignorant.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2012-06-27/gop-op...

> "Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

This is an assertion, not a plan.

Your statement could just as easily apply to publicizing a whistleblower exposing massive corruption as it could to active collaboration with a foreign power to subvert an election.

But beyond that, what are you actually proposing to "start"?

So you're part of the "tear down journalism" crowd that are a part of the problem?

The far right have been attacking journalists as "enemies of the people" for a while now. Extreme leftists tend to hate mainstream journalism, too.