Years ago in college, we had a class where we analyzed science in the news for a few weeks compared to the publish research itself. I think it was a 100% misrepresentation rate comparing what a news article summarized about a paper verses what the paper itself said. We weren't going off of CNN or similar main news sites, but news websites aimed at specific types of news which were consistently better than the articles in mainstream news (whenever the underlying research was noteworthy enough to earn a mention on larger sites). Leaving out complete details or only reporting some of the findings weren't enough to count, as it was expected any news summary would reduce the total amount of information being provided about a published paper compared to reading the paper directly. The focus was on looking for summaries that were incorrect or which made claims which the original paper did not support.

Probably the most impactful "easy A" class I had in college.