If I did want to find out what's going on, which I don't because I'm a Brit and several time zones away from the action, I would simply open Twitter.
Your Twitter experience will be wildly different depending on who you follow. If you do this with some care, and also don't take everything at 100% face value, you too can have a low-misinformation Twitter experience.
Luckily Twitter wasn't a "friends" platform for me, and so far I'm doing okay using Lists and being generous with blocking.
I'm sorry to tell you that the traditional media isn't any better for gossip, opinion and information warfare. You gotta be able to analyse your sources in any case.