What I read was, Social media bad. A part of the long running crusade of the NYT and other media that is finding itself displaced by Social media, whether exist

What I read was, Social media bad. A part of the long running crusade of the NYT and other media that is finding itself displaced by Social media, whether existing sites or new upstarts. The simple point is, NYT and other legacy media companies resent that they don't control the news and how it is portrayed, delivered, and worse for them fact checked. They really loathe being called out repeatedly by "upstarts" who aren't real "journalist". There have been many editors, writers, and more, taken down in recent years that used to operate with impunity within the legacy media. No one would question them or the paper they wrote for. Now they can get caught when they cross the line or worse outright fabricate stories. So the legacy media simply writes stories that portray social media as bad and in need of regulation, in other words, silencing.