> Money destroy everything.
That's an analogue to saying that 'tools destroy everything'. Money is just a tool, you can use it for good and you can use it for bad.
The 'old' internet is still there, underneath all the ad-driven cruft, but for some reason the majority of the people active on the net prefer those ad driven services. I'm not one of them but It's hard to ignore the fact that you - and I - are not in the majority here.
As for being able to check the source, that hasn't been true in a very very long time except for scientific publications (and even there you have to check to see who funded the study).