I'm trying to make a discord bot using discord.js (I have discord.js installed) but for some reason, I keep getting this weird error. I've looked through similar articles that address the same issue and suggested that I update my version of NodeJS to 16.6.0 or above (which I did) but have been unable to solve my issue. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

code:

const Discord = require("discord.js")
const client = new Discord.Client()

client.on("ready", () => {
  console.log('Logged in as', client.user.tag)
})

client.on("message", msg => {
  if (msg.content == "ping") {
    msg.reply("pong");
  }
})

client.login(process.env.TOKEN)

error:

Error: Cannot find module 'node:events'
Require stack:
- /home/runner/name_file/node_modules/discord.js/src/client/BaseClient.js
- /home/runner/name_file/node_modules/discord.js/src/index.js
- /home/runner/name_file/index.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:667:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/runner/name_file/node_modules/discord.js/src/client/BaseClient.js:3:22)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:999:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)