Yet, it's up to us whether to believe it or not. We should be responsible in everything.
But, we also can't sort or hold all the information, let alone cross-reference it and validate it.
There are many ways to verify if the news is true or just speculation – we can do background checks or look for multiple credible sources.
With the flood of information and speed of change, do you validate everything? Ultimately, because we don't, because one thing is wrong, we should assume that everything has a degree of wrongness to it. We should be terribly skeptical, but that also makes us incapable of making decisions.