a useful skill to practice:

look at what a company or person does, and at what they say their intentions are. then ask yourself "if those were truly their intentions, what would the perfect solution look like"?

then compare that perfect solution to what they actually did, and take note of the difference. ask yourself what they stand to gain from that difference, if anything.

this is a method that lets you poke through a lot of propaganda and outright lies, it lets you identify the bits that someone *isn't* saying out loud, the ones that are normally easy to overlook. it works because their framing has much less effect on your reasoning this way.

I call this 'reverse analysis' because it's the reverse of what people normally ask themselves ("does their behaviour look about right for their claimed intentions?"), you start at what it *should* be instead of what it is, but I'm open to a better name