The Atlantic published a report Thursday evening accusing President Trump of disparaging and insulting service members who fought and died during World War I. The story has multiple sources, but all of them are anonymous. Trump is surely capable of saying the things he is alleged to have said, but this report raises a question: How do we as readers treat such an allegation when fake news runs rampant and political biases dominate the coverage?

Trump reportedly skipped a visit to honor the U.S. service members lying in a French cemetery outside of Paris in 2018 because he was nervous the rain would mess up his hair and because he didn’t understand the point of visiting the cemetery in the first place.