It will likely make fake news less profitable, since I would bet that a lot of value in advertising on those sites is driven by the audience, not the type of co

It will likely make fake news less profitable, since I would bet that a lot of value in advertising on those sites is driven by the audience, not the type of content being posted. I think that would be a nice return to the "old internet". Also, it isn't clear to me that the larger sites you talk about would not recoup more value from their audiences and thus need to paywall less.