The Pressure on Local Journalism

Facebook had this opportunity to really like they had killed local news and they could have come in and replaced it with actual quality news, but instead they decided not to. California is considering legislation that would in some ways reimburse publishers for content that gets shared. It feels like the genie is out of the bottle there. And you've also got these platforms. This is a pressure that we heard from a lot of folks who are individuals publishing their own content. They're just at the whims of these platforms, right? Like Google can change something in their algorithm and your entire model can be upended and they won't even tell you about it. What do the blue checks even mean? Anymore