I almost feel bad for making Nerys so two-dimensional, but the head cannon I've created for her supports her actions. Life has not been kind to her and as a result, she's decided to get back at the world in whatever way she can.
As for fact-checking, as you astutely pointed out, Nerys just doesn't care. Just like those rags that get away with printing the most outrageous conjectures about celebrities, she knows that truth never sells the way that slander does. She's coming to the realization that Donna's outgrown her and as a result, her days of free shopping trips are at an end. She's decided to get her own back by wrecking Donna's new life, friendships and happiness by carelessly slinging about whatever dirt she can come up with and seeing what sticks. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if she were to go directly to a tabloid with a tell-all expose on Donna out of pure spite.
As for Donna's reaction to seeing Ten and how the metacrisis might fit into all of this? You'll have to wait and see. Just remember that Ten was too fatalistic, too full of guilt and pain and so sure that he could never keep what made him happy, he was convinced that he had no alternative than to wipe Donna's mind in order to save her. That mindset and the repercussions of that decision set the stage for his demise, as Donna wasn't there to pull him back from going too far and ultimately, he sacraficed himself for Wilf as a form of atonement. Eleven was always darker than Ten and more than a bit of a conniving, scheming bastard, no matter how much he played the fool. He's had hundreds of years to brood on what's been done and he's just reckless enough to try something desperate and underhanded to get his best friend back. I could give you the answer in one word - one, single word- but spoilers.
Ten was totally fatalistic, and believed the bunky prophecies. I could see him dying to save Donna's grandfather as atonement for wiping Donna's life, everything she was, everything she did. As a result of that outlook, he died alone in one of the saddest regenerations ever. He was alone, he was railing against everything he was, and Eleven's birth was out of that pain, designed to forget everything... at least outwardly. Ironic, actually, that he seemed to not remember his former companions until the TARDIS thrust it on him via the voice interface.
As for fact-checking, as you astutely pointed out, Nerys just doesn't care. Just like those rags that get away with printing the most outrageous conjectures about celebrities, she knows that truth never sells the way that slander does. She's coming to the realization that Donna's outgrown her and as a result, her days of free shopping trips are at an end. She's decided to get her own back by wrecking Donna's new life, friendships and happiness by carelessly slinging about whatever dirt she can come up with and seeing what sticks. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if she were to go directly to a tabloid with a tell-all expose on Donna out of pure spite.
As for Donna's reaction to seeing Ten and how the metacrisis might fit into all of this? You'll have to wait and see. Just remember that Ten was too fatalistic, too full of guilt and pain and so sure that he could never keep what made him happy, he was convinced that he had no alternative than to wipe Donna's mind in order to save her. That mindset and the repercussions of that decision set the stage for his demise, as Donna wasn't there to pull him back from going too far and ultimately, he sacraficed himself for Wilf as a form of atonement. Eleven was always darker than Ten and more than a bit of a conniving, scheming bastard, no matter how much he played the fool. He's had hundreds of years to brood on what's been done and he's just reckless enough to try something desperate and underhanded to get his best friend back. I could give you the answer in one word - one, single word- but spoilers.
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Don't make us wait too long for the next chapter!
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