Has that journo any credibility. We really need to remember people will post absolute horse dung to get clicks.
I think the general rule is we believe any accounts that might post something negative and any that suggest we've made a terrible mistake and made ourselves look incompetent again. Then we say nothing when it's shown to be baseless rumours and we wait patiently for the next rumour from a similar account to rage at.
Don't get me wrong, we make ourselves look quite incompetent fairly often, but it does seem very little goes into checking the accounts that loads of this stuff comes from and the first instinct is to lose our minds. I like the chaos that it brings so I'm all for it though.