I can think of @sco and @tfcoates that would appreciate this article. Some of us are actively working to fight disinformation and these biases and pseudoscience. It's a long battle and it's only fighting the disease. To stop it from developing we would need to improve education and to develop better ways to teach people about the dangers of trusting any kind of source.
In Romania, I fought disinformation (in healthcare and politics) for two years and has only given me arrhythmia. Uneducated people are impassible to any evidence. Even when confronted to the fact that the original anti-vaxxer admitted of being a fraud in front of Congress or whatever, they put it on huge pressure on his family by Big Pharma.

Education is key! The question is how do we educate huge masses of people with our resources? The world leaders don't actually care about education, and the leaders in Eastern Europe certainly are against education as all governments are populist. You can't be populist with smart-enough audience.