Newspapers and magazines have spent more than a decade now hemorrhaging revenue, staff, and reach thanks to the collapse
of print advertising, but
recent outcry about the
spread of «
fake news» may have motivated Google and Facebook to provide more support to trusted publishers.
Just as with other
recent large - scale data manipulations, from the
recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and
spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.