If, on the same day, you consume one hour of both 'legacy media news' and then 'social media news' ... you will see a massive disconnect between what stories hits the headlines or the top of the feed.

Legacy media is in decline because a handful of gatekeepers decide what you should know - they skew your news according to the political team the media company supports (usually the left but same thing happens in right-wing legacy media).

Social media is simply the curiosity and insights of endless millions in a glorious free market.

Social media is more prone to error ... but errors get debated and quickly debunked on social media.  When the legacy media has made an error, puffed up pride makes them dig in.

A former Labour minister in the UK has just been arrested for procuring underage sex. It's massive on social media but legacy media ignoring it.

If the accused had been a former Tory minister then legacy media would be blasting it out.

In the 1980s and 1990s, media companies were among the most valuable companies on world stock markets ... and top journalists were paid huge $.  Every couple of years legacy media companies have a mass sacking and management tells us 'this is the last time we'll need to do this.'  They say that to try retain the confidence of advertisers ... but layoffs keep happening because advertisers are incentivised to deploy their ad spend to wherever the most eyeballs are.

Social media (especially X) is melting their power to manipulate us.