Is this what major news wires have devolved into? Copy/pasting a few blurbs from DownDetector? "Thousands of users" on a system of hundreds of millions of user

Is this what major news wires have devolved into? Copy/pasting a few blurbs from DownDetector? "Thousands of users" on a system of hundreds of millions of users....AWS would still be reporting all systems green in such an outage.