Well that's Media for you spreading false rumor's just to destroy the reputation of bitcoin so they can hog all the bitcoin value.
That's true, media were a versatile form in which you dont know whether the information that you are gathering were true or false, I think the best thing to prevent or to know whether it's a fake news or not is to try searching if the information was true and the fundamentals of a reliable source of information must know for your own safety since scammer were involved and not everything on news was true.