It is exceptionally rare for a human to care about the epistemological roots of any claim

I would go so far as to say that the median human with a 100IQ doesn’t even understand the concept of what constitutes a “fact” or how you would dicriminate fact from opinion or has even heard the word “epistemology”

Expecting anything close to that in the context of celebrity gossip… well at that point the author needs to manage his own expectations of humanity