@Tattooed_mummy Right, I suspect that's the main reason why lots of them can't easily leave Xitter. Because of budget cuts in journalism in the last two decades, many of them don't have the time to actually go out to gather news IRL, and scraping public posts over there was a cheap way to paper over that issue.
That's why I don't believe that the fediverse is bad for journalism. It merely exposes the fact that so many newsrooms have been turned into terminally online Potemkin villages.
