Can't even find the source video[1] from the article.
They want to make you depend on their site, which is a terrible idea. Why would you possibly need to go review the sources, eh? In my personal ratings, I give all sites like these the lowest possible score.
The answer is money -- if a journalist no longer needs to worry about having a roof over their head, or making ends meet, then they can go try to make the world a better place, rather than just writing click-bait headlines. I don't know how that will come about -- maybe UBI, maybe a new distribution model -- but the alternative is the slow rotting of the media industry.