I can happily say I've only spoken directly to one person
directly who has given me information (and they've thus far been reliable), but I've also spoken to other people who have similar information and confirmed they're not getting it from the same person. The flip side of this is, to play devil's advocate: who is the source's source for them? Is it verifiably direct (IE do they work on the game, would they be in a position to directly receive this information?) With a lot of effort, just like crafting a fake it'd be so easy to insert 'sources' into different places to create an echo chamber that spreads misinformation.
This is where my
previous posts about reporting come in, and how in traditional journalistic areas anybody would want two or more verifiable sources before going to print. They don't just want two sources: you want to make sure you can also verify they have the means to possess the information they do and also that the two sources are independent - ensure that they're not saying the same thing because
they both heard it from the same place, which could be incorrect. This is why you haven't seen any really big leak reports on big-name websites about this, and why most of the discourse is just people (be it influencers, media, social media folks, community members or whatever else) shooting the shit on twitter. I don't think anybody has really been able to piece together that sort of water-tight sourcing, so of course people could be being misled. I don't think it's all that likely though.