The point is that the articles are read by folks who are not on Twitter.You seem to say they’re representative of more than 5% of the population because of who they write for and how employs them. I disagree. They want clicks. They want things that get eyeballs. Fantastic and “edgy” stories do that. But that doesn’t mean that the people who read them or repost them actually agree with them. We’re probably talking past each other here.
Twitter, like anything, is what you make of it. There’s some good info, as you posted above. But none of it can really be a barometer of what people think.
Twitter is just the means of posting them here due to laziness.