I don't have any prescriptions for society as a whole but I can tell you what has worked for me.

Basically I rely on my own observations and experiences: don't trust and verify, to adapt the old saying.

Second I limit myself to trusted sources of information and if I can't find one then I just don't get information on that topic: no information is better than false information.

In practice what this means is no algorithmic news feeds, I'm still looking for a good news source for my local city (haven't found one yet, I moved recently), I think a lot about incentive structures and how that might bias an information source, I (try) to apply skepticism to what I read, I block as much noise as possible (for example I don't pay attention to surface level political news because its all noise and virtually no signal), I focus on long term trends rather than "points" in the timeline.

This is far from perfect but its what has evolved as my approach over time.