I love your challenge - it’s vital. Not that I completely agree with you. I try to challenge myself in the same way, with various matters. I am 100% positive other anons can do a much better job of it, and part of my answer might look like a cop out.. but, for starters:
How can you watch a movie and tell it’s fake? How can you spot a fake Dali or Da Vinci? Expertise, good sir, and solid foundational knowledge to pull from. Remember that.
So, many on this board have investigated conspiracy theories for some time prior to POTUS, and after time, we have confirmed some as fact and come to acknowledge that much of what the masses see and hear, much of the way they - and previously we - thought was fake, manipulated, garbage. It comes with experience. Much in the same way that you might first-hand witness a report being told in a distorted manner. You’re thinking might go from accepting Everything CNN reports as fact in which you can repeat truthfully, to questioning CNN’s narrative, to rejecting CNN, to questioning Fox, skipping a step and rejecting Fox. To suspecting the report of every national or international event that you hear from a friend who heard from CNN. Etc.
You keep fact-checking on you’re own, or you become despondent. If you start looking for owl symbolism in movies and merchandise, you start to see it everywhere, everywhere. Upside down crosses, baphomet figures, much much other cryptic symbolism. You research and discover the meaning of said symbolism. You see certain major players using and wearing this symbolism. You research the histories of these people and the ancestries, major political leaders.
You find it’s quite strange, for instance, and utterly disturbing, that no one on mainstream media has reported on the Epstein scandal, the Hillary email use of symbolism and its implications, Silsby’s attempt to kidnap children from Haiti and her bailout from the CLIntons, the recently dead reporter who was bringing a sex abuse and pedophilia claim, at least, against Bill.
You spend your time searching for the truth YOURSELF - that is the only way, because to experience something is the absolute best way an individual can validate it.
This is how qresearch operates - it’s fundamental principle, without which, it would not exist as it does, I.e. a mass collective effort by intelligent individuals.
That’s why you go to qmap.pub, and start answering the questions there and many of your own questions using your own time and understanding.
Also, Q has presented uncountable predictions which actually unfolded LATER. The predictions simply could not have been made, even amongst many other predictions that did not unfold as interpreted, without some kind of superior intel than what we now believe we have available as “regular” citizens.
You’ll notice many anons, myself included, question Q’s loyalties and probably will until the end, because it’s our unique nature to do so. We question, because we have discovered so much deception around us that it’s confounding.