What incentive would the NYT (or similar media outlets) have to NOT imply that Hacker News is supportive home to white supremacists, racists, fascists, right-wi

What incentive would the NYT (or similar media outlets) have to NOT imply that Hacker News is supportive home to white supremacists, racists, fascists, right-wing extremists, and rampant sexism? (outside of whether they find HN the right interesting target or not) There are no standards or penalties for using logical fallacies in media writing. As a journalist, all you need to do is craft your wording to imply a connection to be able to smear your target (or to make a nice click-worthy article with hot-takes). Here's a few different tactics that you can use: -does your target have at least 1 or 2 members of its community who have said something outside the norms of the present? -is there anybody who is within 2-3 degrees of relationship between the leadership at the site that sometimes say things outside the norms of the present? -are there members of the community who are part of another community that doesn't have sufficient equal representation along identity lines? (i.e. this is a tech community, tech underrepresents some minorities, therefore, this site is racist) -does the racial/gender makeup of the community not align with the broader US population?