We usually can spot hard news, and then spin. One can filter it out I think with relative ease, with some exceptions. If your primary news source ignores a news item, of course you're SOL.
There was a recent story that Mueller had apparently said something that could confirm the Clinton campaign was in on the Trump - Russia thing. The spin cycle on that was epic, it took 2-3 days for it to even get mentioned in some outlets, and then it was discussed with considerable spin. Now, it's also true that the Trump Network was also spinning the story. The actual hard quote from the Mueller thing was pretty vague, in my view. But one can look at the actual verbatim from some source of said information and see if the spin is at all correct.
The story didn't have legs, perhaps because of Ukraine, I suppose in time it either will disappear into nothingness or get resurrected in some more tangible form.