Complexity: We know the fact that Crypto projects can be highly technical, which makes it a big challenge for newcomers to understand them totally.
Research for newbies is very tricky because there are analysis like fundamentals and technicals that need to be done properly, to narrow this down for newbies I would suggest they should stick to bitcoin only, it more trusted and doesn’t need extensive knowledge to invest in, except if it is trading, you just need to just hodl for a very long time, no need for FOMO or anything.
Social media is also a good platform to get good news from but the question is, are they reliable?
Since they are not reliable as you have stated then we can’t quantify the information from there as been good. One thing is avoid those influencers on social media, most are paid just to advertise shitcoins.