It does prevent the news article from saying "And they knew about it and they did nothing!"

I'd be very worried about this in their shoes and acting very similarly.

But then don't you have to answer to all the media queries?

"They knew about this problem, they even attempted to half ass fix it, but it's obviously their mind is on the subscriber money, and not preventing blatant CHILD EXPLOITATION!"

Then you throw some more money at a yet unsolvable task, and then in 2 years, when some other outlet gets triggered, you have to defend yourself once again.

"They've know about this problem for 5 years and it's still rampant in their community! Shame on you JERF INC.!"

You're not entirely wrong, but if you make the story unattractive enough, the media will go do a hatchet job on someone else. They've only got so much time and they've got a lot of outrage to drum up^W^W^W^Wengagement metrics to drive, so you jst put enough in to try to make them hit somebody else instead.