That is the real problem with this kind of reporting: it teaches people to be afraid of technology without teaching them how to evaluate the evidence. There is a legitimate conversation to be had about connected devices, data collection, and consumer privacy. Stories like this do little to advance it.

Journalists are supposed to be the ones evaluating the evidence. It’s not “we report, you decide”.

It’s not even bias on the side of the journalists. It’s malicious laziness. Facts don’t matter, only the ability to click on an article. We’ve made journalism so competitive that this is the end result of capitalistic enshittification of all news.

Of course, it’s also the job of users to look at a “news” source like Dexetro, realize its reputation is shit, and move on.