> They systematically took these audiences away from the content providers It sounds like those audiences have an equivalent chance of organically discovering

> They systematically took these audiences away from the content providers It sounds like those audiences have an equivalent chance of organically discovering those news without centralized search engines or news feed systems? Then what's the value of those systems? If they don't provide any values, then why don't those audiences just go to the new website instead of clicking a link from Google/Facebook/whatever.