I would recommend by starting with Op's following suggestion:  Do Your own research and stop letting others tell You what to believe.  Op surely means well, however, everything that was offered here is pretty vanilla, although the 10-15 years earlier version of me would have wanted to be best buddies with him/her. To restate, the information provided above is not only not ground-breaking, but well-known by many following the mainstream 'truth' movement. Much of it isn't wholly substantiated, and the facts of the matter involve a complexity that may require a greater comprehension of the history, above and beyond a mainstream conspiracy theory history of it. The Truth of the matter is this, the gatekeepers of the information world understand that capital T Truth is uncomfortable. It shatters the indoctrinated world view of even most that think that they are 'awake'. People that are raised within the 'truth movement' are raised to be perpetuators of the institutionalized gate-keeping and don't even know it. The real Truths out there are closer to the ones that have never been en vogue. You will know of them by the fact that you can't speak of them in public, and especially within the mainstream 'truth' movement. Remember that 'Q' is still considered a 'larp' within the broader supposed 'truth' movement, for example. So, again, be mindful of those attempting to tell you to do your own research but then front-loading you with what you should discount, because "it's a government psyop designed to hurt the truth movement', as some would claim. That claim in itself should be discounted and you should consider adopting the adage 'stop letting others tell You what to believe' right then and there.