Slate is far left leaning, and growing more extreme with time. See https://www.allsides.com/news-source/slate https://www.allsides.com/news-source/slate. I'd

Slate is far left leaning, and growing more extreme with time. See https://www.allsides.com/news-source/slate https://www.allsides.com/news-source/slate. I'd take that article with a heavy grain of salt. They also use two data points of failed moderation (not a lack of moderation) and try to paint the entire platform based on it. That happened plenty under the old regime as well. If the actual journalists paid for the blue checkmark, that'd solve the issue wouldn't it? Twitter prior to Musk was a sinking ship (cancel culture exaggerated the problem). Asking people to pay is one of the attempts to solve that problem. If a journalist is unwilling to pay, they're going to be deprioritized and can't really complain about it. But Twitter has been very open and transparent about the need to reduce bots by paying for the checkmark.