I think a lot has to do with media outlets like TechCrunch having an “oh shit” moment wherein they realize Facebook is taking their profit machine from them (ad

I think a lot has to do with media outlets like TechCrunch having an “oh shit” moment wherein they realize Facebook is taking their profit machine from them (advertising). He even admits as much in the Twitter comments where he posted this. If people at this point doubt that traditional media is waging war against Facebook as a means of survival and masquerading as a bastion of privacy as a means to an ends they are willfully delusional. These organizations show much more intrusive ads to me than Facebook. Also they treat Twitter with kid gloves because Twitter is useful for them to gain a following and disseminate their posts. Twitter has also shown me much more politically motivated ads recently than Facebook has.