Google and Facebook thrive in a winner-take-all environment. Both companies profit from advertising, just as traditional media outlets did before Google and Fac

Google and Facebook thrive in a winner-take-all environment. Both companies profit from advertising, just as traditional media outlets did before Google and Facebook captured all the ad revenue. There used to be some accountability in the media-advertising model, but that is largely gone in the era of slop, targeted propaganda and automated rage bait.