[vharuck]

>Just like in old media. We have fox and cnn, we will have Facebook Twitter and whatever the right will build.

I don't think it's destined or even likely to end up this way. The reason there's no major conservatively aligned social media is because the vast majority of users don't care much about politics. They may vote Republican, but they don't follow Republicans on Twitter, and they ignore politically heated debates on Facebook. The number of conservatives who want to talk politics with other conservatives is not enough to sustain anything on the same scale as Twitter or Facebook.

Don't compare these services to CNN or Fox News. News inherently involves politics, so it's easy for news services to differentiate themselves with politics. Instead, think of it like Disney+ and Hulu. Which is the one for conservatives?

[munk-a]

We've had a few very prominent conservatively aligned social media outlet - Parler in particular comes to mind as a semi-successful one, but there are a bunch of conservative oriented message boards and news feeds that have existed for quite some time.

I'd strongly disagree that news necessarily involves politics as well, political topics can be mentioned and reference without turning things into a partisan sh*show and it is only recently (probably since about '95) that we've had rabid debate shows like Hardball that really rewarded news outlets for being extremely partisan.

[orhmeh09]

There were laws that Reagan did away with about the so-called fairness of political television broadcasting, which might explain how those shows got more popular. However, I think politics and news generally have been of a rabid tenor since forever.