What about traditional media lying all the time? By citing "sources" journalists can say whatever they want without any kind of accountability.
This is just old media crying for losing to new media platforms.
True. The number of "anonymous sources say..." stories in the New York Times has gotten to the point of absurdity. Might as well be getting the news from 4chan.
That's not how it works in real media organizations like the NYT.
Here's a nice example of how AP explains "anonymous sources" to its journalists and readers. It's harder to trick the New York Times than Jacob Wohl and QAnon believers thought:
https://www.ap.org/about/news-values-and-principles/telling-...
Except for those two years worth of anonymous sources say "Mueller is going to take down Trump any day now" stories.
Reading comprehension is a prerequisite to good media literacy.
Controlling the narrative is a lot of political power to have. And I guess alot of people don't want to see traditional media lose that power.