[dabinat]

I feel like this may be made worse by the rise in paywalls from media companies. I understand times are difficult and they need to make money, but it’s harder to counter disinformation if only those with money can see it. Disinformation will always be free to view.

[marcus_holmes]

The open question of how journalists get paid is key to democracy, and still open.

[boredatoms]

Many countries have free news services though. Can read BBC and so on

[anonymousiam]

BBC is state funded, so it's technically not "free."

[boredatoms]

Every service is somehow funded. Would you say NPR also isnt free?

[reddozen]

Even when journalism was free, no one read anything. Paywalls didn't make people less lazy to read articles. People are totally content mindlessly thumbing infinite scrolling apps.

If you want to fix the average Americans low information media digest we need to start by banning the "algorithm".