SV was never interested in news. It always considered it content. Journalists were labelled content producers. The holy grail was internally produced free conte

SV was never interested in news. It always considered it content. Journalists were labelled content producers. The holy grail was internally produced free content that reinforced circular engagement. They have that now. Lots of people happy to produce TikTok style videos for internet points. The idea of emphasising any content that led off-platform has always been something they wanted to get rid of. This was inevitable.