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but it seems to have quite a big impact on news reporting etc
I think you're right. The most competent journalists exist on there but exercise caution andc are over what and how they report. This is a minority of journalists IMO.
Of course, Tommy Robinson is a journalist and he's banned from there. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Stonehedge-
competent journalists exist on there
But it also hollows out journalism in general. I regularly find myself reading articles about what some politician or public figure said, then what the responses were and so on, and then realise halfway through the article that all the source material is from Twitter. No speeches, reports, public debates, press releases, meeting minutes etc needed. Lazy journos can just sit back and let the soundbites come to them.
starfish&coffee
My gut feel says this too, but it seems to have quite a big impact on news reporting etc