Yap. It was a bit of a back and forth. After the election was lost, the traditional media which Clinton relied on so much was deemed to have failed. Chomsky wo

Yap. It was a bit of a back and forth. After the election was lost, the traditional media which Clinton relied on so much was deemed to have failed. Chomsky would say the Manufacturing Consent machine had broken down somewhere. Almost immediately Facebook and Google started talking about "Fake News" and how they'll work twice as hard to combat it. On the surface it was nice to see these companies saving us from lizard people spam, on another level it was a message to the future presidential or other marketing campaigns saying effectively "Don't spend you billions on MSNBC, spend them on us, we'll be far more effective". Now the old and crusty media is punching back and writing articles about how tech companies are eating our souls. I agree in principle with article and never even signed up for Facebook to begin with but like you identified so it has merit, but I think there is also a battle on another level here as well.