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I'm not both sidesing, I'm pointing out that misinformation and biased studies have existed forever. It's the responsibility of the media to suss that out and verify it before reporting. That's just a plain fact of the job, nobody can offload that onto the source.
"Sometimes wrong" is an incredibly generous way to put it. If reporters had got out ahead in vetting the bullshit vaccine-autism study before amplifying it, we wouldn't have people dying of measles today. Asking them to do the bare minimum of checking that a human poll even happened is not asking much.
The source didn't lie about anything, they used Ai mysticism to project plausible sounding answers. Anyone can do that and it's not that subversive. The people who believe them either fundamentally don't understand the tech or are too lazy to look closely. Don't condone that passivity by pretending baseline media and technical literacy are impossible to achieve (especially for professional reporters).