>to signal that they are a legitimate news source. Oh good, we can kill off all of the cable news companies. Journalism could do with some of that 2007 disrupt

>to signal that they are a legitimate news source. Oh good, we can kill off all of the cable news companies. Journalism could do with some of that 2007 disruptive energy from tech companies. I, at least, can trust Google not to auto-play video/audio and for that, they can be my single source of news from the outside world. Hail Google (and The Intercept). But seriously, this is going to take time before whatever authority on this subject becomes trusted enough to not abuse these powers. It is "Google" but someone inside of Google is going to decide it, and we deserve to know who unless they are just going to snipe one or two sites per year.