I strongly suspect that such people have simply moved to other sources, and more importantly, the statistics on who was reading news was _strongly_ biased by th

I strongly suspect that such people have simply moved to other sources, and more importantly, the statistics on who was reading news was _strongly_ biased by the ease with which that information could be tracked. If 1% of the population was responsible for seeking out interesting news and sharing them, and 4% was reading what was being directly provided to them, and then the ability to see what that 4% is reading disappeared, it would look like an 80+% reduction in people reading the news, even though all that happened was that the sharing is now occurring in an illegible fashion.