The fake news might get the price of a coin up or down with a single statement
The best way to protect yourself is to do think for yourself
What do you mean? it's been controlled ever since, that's why this market is really prone to manipulation. And speculators knows this game, that's why they have this ability to create such fake news in the market because they know it will drastically affect majority of investors, specially newbies. That's why they love to do it, so that they can buy a lot when the price is down.