It very much feels significantly more like incompetence than malice (not that I think any particular person at LMG is incompetent. The processes likely are however). Honestly LMG just probably grew way faster than any of their processes could scale.

Their production cycle seems to be more targeted at producing content, moreso than anything else, like integrity or correctness.

I've noted several errors myself, most of the ones I've seen are relatively minor, and mostly pedantic, but they're inaccuracies nonetheless.

If LMG wants to move towards being more journalism and a reputable source of accurate information, which, from everything they've done recently (most notably the lab), they seem to want to be, then they need people to go and fact check everything, and scrutinize final products to ensure accurate information. Making sure that inaccuracies are caught and sent back to the beginning of the pipeline to be re-reviewed, and if necessary, re-shot.

They can't keep doing things by the seat of their pants and hoping for the best.

My hats off to GN for bringing it to light, and hopefully some meaningful changes come from this.

The sponsor related aspects I feel they handle pretty well for the most part, they're often critical of sponsors and I don't get the feeling he'd straight up sell out. It feels like they're putting out so much content across so many channels that they're not able to keep up the accuracy / quality. That's a fair point I think Steve raised and to see it fobbed off by Linus in his response is disappointing