Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
The main justifications are the lack of censorship and "cancellation," direct information from primary sources and commentators, and easy identification of scripted content produced by corporations, shadowy "foundations," crooked NGOs, dicey para-regimes like the EU, and other propagandists.
I have no doubt that those are your beliefs and I have no desire to debate them. But your statement was,

the consensus is that X is now the primary global trusted news source.
I thought perhaps you have read/seen/heard some information that lead you to make that claim. I was curious about what "consensus" you were talking about.