The internet has been around a while and I'm not sure how someone would go about verifying the "real" news.
You check the sources, keeping in mind the reliability of each source. If a newspaper says X, where does it get this information from? Persons A, B, and C? Then check to make sure they actually said it. It's a sort of detective work.
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