The rise of the online news hustlers
These sketchy, anonymous middlemen have fast-become X's favorite breaking news sources
The first footage I saw of the Pennsylvania man who fired eight rounds at Donald Trump came not from NBC, which was playing on TV, but from an enigmatic X account called @Faytuks. Just 80 minutes after the attempted assassination, Faytuks posted an eyewitness video that showed the deceased gunman lying on a roof. That post has since been viewed millions…