I remember just a few days ago when media outlets were slamming the "alt-right trolls" for spreading the racist conspiracy theory that the attack on Jussie Smollett was fake. Fast forward to today, it's generally accepted as fake (although Smollett still hasn't admitted it) by those same news outlets, yet there's 0 acknowledgement of the fact that the people they slammed turned out to be completely right, and of course no apology. Just more rhetoric about how this might make people less likely to believe them in the future. Believability is something that's earned, and at this point it's been lost by mainstream news outlets. Shutting down some internet troll bogeyman isn't going to change that, a little self-awareness might.