Crypto media contains three different things wearing one coat: reporting, analysis, and promotion. Telling them apart is most of the skill.
Reporting
Someone confirmed a fact and named their source. It can still be wrong, but it can be checked. If you cannot find the original document, it is not reporting yet.
Analysis
An interpretation of reporting. Reasonable people disagree about it, and a confident tone says nothing about whether it is right. Read the reasoning, not the certainty.
Promotion
The test that catches most of it: is the article telling you what to do, or only telling you what already happened? The second is reporting. The first is usually an advertisement wearing the clothes of an article — and a very common form of it is the fake support message covered in the scam patterns.
Four questions for any headline
- What is the source? A link to a filing, a rule, a document — or none?
- What is missing? Real reporting notes what it does not know.
- Who benefits if I act on this?
- Is there a deadline? Urgency is a technique, not a fact.
The part that matters more than the news
None of it changes what you should do, because you should have decided that before you opened the feed: how much, for how long, in which plan, and what you do when it falls. That is a written plan, and it does not need updating daily.