The story has been buried with seo spam, but they fired most of their central/liberal reporters, and are now trying to compete for the Fox News demographic. Saying trump lied about the 2020 election outcome was one bright line that got some of them fired.
(The changes came as part of the discovery merger with hbo, etc., which also led to mass show cancellations.)
My favourite is when the Clinton emails were leaked, they straight up told the viewers on TV that the viewers will go to jail if they read the emails and that only they (CNN) could legally read the emails and tell the viewers the content. That was a funny episode of political damage control.
(The changes came as part of the discovery merger with hbo, etc., which also led to mass show cancellations.)