If you want evidence of how the left is just as susceptible to conspiracy theories as the right, just look at how quickly everyone gobbled up the idea that the Just Stop Oil group was secretly paid by oil execs to attack that Van Gogh painting. It's pretty obviously a baseless claim with nothing to support it, but no one really bothered to fact check it since it fits into a preconceived notion of how the world works.

When people say you are not immune to propaganda, they really do mean you. We as a group have to get much better about verifying that the information we are sharing is accurate, maybe especially when it goes against the mainstream narrative we are conditioned to distrust. Doing your own research really does mean doing your own research- and sometimes, if you catch yourself asking "why is no one talking about this," you have to at least consider the possibility that no one is talking about it because it simply isn't true.