[thu2111]

Urgh, great. So Facebook presumably think this won't spread to other places, but now they folded it will.

So the news industry is going to fix the problem of falling trust and falling revenues by becoming subsidy junkies extracting wealth from tech firms. And this works because apparently politicians fear the press's ability to distort and manipulate the voter base so much that they can get whatever they want, which means that in practice both tech firms and politicians are controlled by the press, who are in turn accountable to nobody - not even anymore the market of their readers. The reputation of journalists will get much worse before it gets better (if it ever does).