>>16251869"media" despite being literally plural is used both as singular and plural depending on context.
>The media are bothering me againrefers to numerous entities, journalists, whatever
>[Social] media is destroying societysocial media is treated as a single umbrella entity/group and is therefore singular
>Modern social media are shitin this instance, you are pointing a finger at each service and calling it shit instead if treating them all as one shitty group.
It's similar to "all is" vs "all are"
