The specific line reminds me of the concept of Journalism. When I was doing previous research for this class, I looked into sources like ScienceDaily, which was referred to as a site for journalism. Journalism is a low-quality form of Journalism in which information is repackaged to create articles to meet the increasing pressure of time and cost without further research or fact-checking. It plays a huge game of telephone between news and research articles that offers, most of the time, nothing new for consumers, which lengthens the time in research. There are many arguments on whether or not certain things are churnalism or articles that are catered to putting information in plain terms or simpler terms for audiences like children and the general public is up to wider debate and Case by case.

There's also a very common issue in conversations that are happening within the online social media space. Due to the general Public's understanding of the validity of the journals, articles, organizations, and their academic rigor, using their sources in your claims puts credibility behind your claims online. They'll often do so because, due to the nature of social media, people are not as investigative of the original sources themselves. Many people think a claim in the Tweet is valid because the source is valid, without necessarily the claim matching the citation.

I think this is especially true in the current landscape of journalism, where there is more value put into portraying all sides as equal than seeking out the truth and reality of a situation. Often, these are decisions weighed on by financial incentives; owners of companies do not want certain information to be seen in a negative light, or they prefer other things to be seen in a negative light or devalued. Not all ideas within the marketplace of ideas are created equal, nor logically sound. Nor should everything in the idea of the marketplace be given too much weight, especially in the context of certain stories and certain ideas. This makes having information literacy, especially in the aspect of researching who funds and the incentives of the authors and their publishing companies, especially important.