The authors of the article you linked, are you a bot or something? If not, touch some grass.

The exact opposite: that sources need to be cited so they can be validated independently.

This article doesn’t explain how citing sources is unnecessary.

How exactly do you prove that sources aren’t necessary? Maybe you should take a break from moderating once in a while if you really believe that.

Quoting a source is done if you don’t want to take personal responsibility to state something as a fact.

Take a step back from your passion topic here and say that about any other journalistic or scientific piece and you‘ll see what absolute bullshit that statement is. A reputable medium has and should not have any problem citing sources (I‘m not judging the medium here by that, might have been a simple mistake, there seem to be a lot of freelance authors).

According to automatically translated titles in search results (auto subs in video is broken for me), this is the source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/reMYxWBELxM

The reporting outlets should reference this, this is bad style and opens up opportunity to flag these stories as falsified anecdotes by propagandists.

What? The article reads like the author talk to Bahaa in person, but this isn’t clearly stated as it is common with first person accounts. So i wondered who actually talk to him.

Did the author spoke with Bahaa directly, or what is the primary source on this?