If a specific journalist has an axe to grind they don't need to be part of a larger conspiracy to ask damaging questions. There are some people that enjoy the

If a specific journalist has an axe to grind they don't need to be part of a larger conspiracy to ask damaging questions. There are some people that enjoy the power trip of forcing the hand of large companies, and there are others that will get behind a cause dogmatically and are capable of inflicting extreme damage -- no conspiracy required. That is what I suspect happened with that NYT piece, because its depictions of PornHub were distorted and off-base. And the damage stretches far and wide. And judging by the Twitter thread this seems to be the case.