I'd understand if you said you replaced the popular press with academic journals or books by scientists. But Reddit and Twitter? That's an improvement??

If you scroll down on Reddit (and especially HN), there is usually a top comment providing missing context.

Readers are pretty crappy at reading the news too. One would be wise to apply the same skepticism you have for science reporting on all reporting.

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

― Michael Crichton

The article is titled "Green finance for dirty ships" - the misleading HN title (which doesn't show up anywhere in the article) _is_ the problem in this case, IMO.

It's somewhat ironic that the article is perfectly clear and reasonable, and only the HN title which is misleading.

Perhaps you should simply not read too much into HN titles?

Important is a relative thing though. The headline is more important... for attracting readers and getting ad dollars. Which is sadly the priority.