Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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Right-Wing Media See Traffic Plummet in Wake of Algorithm Changes by Facebook, Google

by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:

The Atlantic on Saturday ran an article boasting about right-wing media sites seeing their traffic implode due to algorithmic changes by Facebook and Google — but the joke is on them.

FromĀ The Atlantic, “Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble”:

As you may have heard, mainstream news organizations are facing a financial crisis. Many liberal publications have taken an even more severe beating. But the most dramatic declines over the past few years belong to conservative and right-wing sites. The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry; it’s utterly collapsing.