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Problem is Twitter is heavily manipulated by actors with the money. Journalists weakened position as laborers created a generation of journalists without real mentorship. This in turn made us lose knowledge of consequences and thus ethics.

Finally neo journalists just watch Twitter all day long, which makes it their main source. This amplifies the adverserial content farms employed by centralized money.

In a sense, mass "social" media is the modern incarnation of royalty's replacement for religion.



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