In reply to Javier Szmajser.

I also have bro doubt that Bluesky will fall to this. Mastodon not so much.

As for the big media I still trust reporters and journalists far more than I trust people who "do their own research" and arrive at their own conclusions about the truth. Of course all journalists are biased, and see the world in an incomplete way and so the trick is to read widely. But you are better off reading widely from sources that provide accountability through fact-checkers and who publish legally defensible material. Reporting is essential, and always incomplete. The fool confuses punditry and opinion with reporting. Everyone has an opinion, but I still place some trust in journalists to do their jobs, as I do in scientists and people who know A LOT more about things than I do. You and I are not educated enough to judge truth from lies on probably 98% of what we read and consume. We have to go on trust. We need to be careful to check our own biases and keep our curiosity alive and open.