Social media platforms are siphoning ad dollars from local media outlets while they enjoy liability protection for what’s posted on their platforms. Call me ticked. In the old days, circa 1990s, social media was not even a dot on the radar as the web continued to expand. Now, big-name players like Facebook almost rule the world in terms of what information, misinformation gets disseminated, helping lower the collective IQ of the U.S. in many cases.
Myspace, for example, the pre-runner to Facebook, was founded in 2003. Facebook came along a year later, and quickly, relatively speaking, overtook Myspace, which lost all ...