Important read!!-----How the Media Used Russiagate Conspiracy Theories to Create a News Cartel | FrontpageMag

How the Media Used Russiagate Conspiracy Theories to Create a News Cartel | FrontpageMag

• The alliance between Big Tech and Big Media was sealed with censorship and cash.

"...About a third of Americans regularly get their news through Facebook. 

The tech giant’s algorithms had the ability to make or break the news media, and would go on to break the digital media empires of the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and others in the lefty clickbait brigade.
...Facebook News was a walled garden that pushed the content of the major papers behind Russiagate

...The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook paid over $20 million to the New York Times and $15 million to the Washington Post in annual fees. 

Even more valuable than the big checks was Facebook’s ability to push media content to its users. 
...Facebook and the media had created a cartel in which media sites created paywalls to raise the value of their content and gain better deals with the social media monopoly. 

• ...In 2020, Zuckerberg had cut out the media middleman by influencing the election directly through the hundreds of millions in ‘Zuckerbucks’ that were handed out to local election offices in primarily Democrat areas, effectively “privatizing” a national presidential election..."