This whole time I thought it was snakes falling from trees

That sounded like a really familiar yuuuuuup, then I realized, Dave from Storage Wars

Don’t know anything about the history of all this or who runs the site but they’re saying to not trust any social media accounts

No one uses social media for freedom of speech anyways. We use it for entertainment, news etc. and it’s not entertaining seeing a bunch of horrible toxic shit constantly. The web is where freedom of speech applies, individual websites are better when properly moderated.