Nowadays, it is difficult to determine which information is truthful and which isn't. Especially since information comes from so many sources repeating and rehashing the original information, and each source telling the story from its own viewpoint, that the real story gets deformed a bit. Or a lot, depending on who you are speaking to.
For news stories I came across a news aggregator that tends to combine these separate sources back into a comprehensive story while reporting on which sources reported on it, and which didn't. Ground News delivers this insight at a reasonable price, and it utilizes ChatGPT to come up with a merged storyline that tends to be devoid of huge deviations from the original chain of events.
In general, you would need to do this yourself, by reading multiple sources on the same event, and making up your own mind. This is hard to do in today's information overload, but the best approach is to delay one's emotional reaction in favor of a more detached and logical interpretation. Of course grounding oneself is also a very worthwhile endeavour...