The internet rewards immediacy even when accuracy needs another hour.

Being first is rewarded and being right is rewarded much later, if at all. That imbalance shapes what everyone publishes, and it means the initial version of any story is systematically the least reliable one you will see.

Hold your reaction for a day on anything consequential. The correction, the context, the walk-back all arrive after the attention has moved on. Reading things a day late costs you nothing and improves your accuracy considerably.