It really doesn't seem accurate to characterize this blogpost as a measured approach. A few quotes that jumped out at me from just the first section:

> the Times’ tech team quickly donned their hall-monitor goggles and Stasi notebooks

> The little crew of tattletale millennials assembled by NBC — who refer to their twerpy work with the self-glorifying title of “working in the disinformation space”

> they clearly get aroused — find otherwise-elusive purpose — by destroying people’s reputations and lives