There is a famous saying "give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.". Likewise, if we start thinking from our own brain then it might take some time to develop good critical thinking skills but once they are developed they will be with us for life. There is no use of following other advice or signalling group.
One need time and dedication to validate information that is at his disposal. Since there is lots of information floating around, we need to separate the real one from the garbage.
All this will help in developing skills that can judge whether the logic presented in the source (news) is valid or not. May be in start we get no good results but with time this approach will mature.
There is a lot of news out there that may be difficult to distinguish which news is trash and which news is genuine. For me the ratio is 1 to 100 or even more than that.
Now is the age of easy access to things and like it or not behind the convenience there are definitely negatives that are in it, we cannot separate the two words, positive and negative, because both will always walk side by side, that's how we can sort it out or not.
There is nothing wrong with listening to advice from other people or groups, but we should not swallow it raw or in other words, we immediately believe it. After all, we have to review what others say, until we find the real facts.