> Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network. Imho that's a bit simplified. While

> Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network. Imho that's a bit simplified. While the article doesn't actually mention this, I'm very convinced that this is also the result of news media increasingly relying on social media for their reporting themselves. At this point, even traditional old-school media like TV and print are constantly quoting social media posts when reporting on something. Used to be that big media outlets would at least interview renowned experts, but that seems to be largely replaced by "Jonny on Twitter said". For people as young as those in the article, this must be literally the only "news media" they've ever known, but they grew up with social media, so traditional news media just quoting social media is kinda redundant to them, as they are usually so familiar with social media that they don't need the traditional media as a "middleman" but could just as well look up these responses themselves without having them get "filtered" by a media outlet. > Are they sure? I bet it's just one big echo chamber of people copy/pasting each other, just like every trend on social media (memes, etc). I also wouldn't be too surprised if a couple of these, supposedly 13 years old, admins turn out to be actual adults who are getting paid for pushing certain agendas.