It depends on the ultimate source of the news. What do I mean? If you are on social media and following a news source (I know, I know, that is problematic, given what is or isn’t news these days seems to be up in the air, too:) like a CNN, NPR, BBC, at least you know the source (or AP, Reuters, etc). A lot of Social Media "news’ that I run across is someone posting an ‘article’ that is them as the source. I hate to tell you the number of times when someone posts something they say is “news”, and when I try to track it down, it turns out the ultimate source (which they don’t cite) is like one post on some website that is definitely biases (and to be be blunt, this is not limited to one side or the other, it is common now with both). One way to tell if a news citing is true is to look at see if anyone else has a story on the same thing, and see how they report it.
I can understand the distrust of media, I stay away from news because quite honestly even sources I once trusted like the BBC have gone off the deep end in many ways from news as I once understood it. It isn’t so much the news has a slant to it (it always did, for the most part, in Europe they never pretended otherwise, especially the UK), but these days it is a lot more than that. It will be interesting to see as they get older and as they hit the real world, when they read something in the ‘new news’, get upset, then find out it isn’t true, how long it will be until they stop trusting that.