Mainstream Media Epically Trolled - Elon may no longer be king of the trolls

How did mainstream media get this one so wrong? These people claimed they were fired from their jobs at Twitter by Elon Musk. In reality they were trolls trying to see if they could get mainstream media to bite at their fake story. It worked. When did news transform itself into always being about a hot take rather than the proper take? Perhaps it's always been that way. One Twitter employee tweeted that it literally would have taken the media 30 seconds to ask, or check for a Twitter ID badge in order to confirm their story. That's another strike for mainstream media, and also a huge reason why viewers are leaving those platforms in large numbers.