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== What happened to Matt Drudge? ==

== What happened to Matt Drudge? ==

For many years, Matt Drudge was the top source of conservative news. In 2018-2019, his site gradually moved to the left. Nowadays, it is just another news aggregator. Viewship has declined sharply. What kind of business model is that? Perhaps Drudge sold out to some liberal billionaire. But who, when, and why? [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/matt-drudge-logs-off This story] follows the rabbit hole as far down as it goes. In the summer on 2019, Drudge switched the site's advertising account to a company owned by Margeret Otto. She lives in Mountain View, California and is the wife of Adrian Otto, an executive at Google. The pair has been managing server traffic for the Drudge Report since at least 2005. The writer of this article seems to have investigated the issue quite thoroughly. But he didn't come up with anyone beside the Ottos who are directly connected to the site at this point: no interns, no editors, no sign of what happened to Drudge himself. It's all bit ironic if you recall that Drudge accused Alex Jones of “playing in Google’s hell pit," back in 2015. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 02:39, 26 November 2020 (EST)

For many years, Matt Drudge was the top source of conservative news. In 2018-2019, his site gradually moved to the left. Nowadays, it is just another news aggregator. Viewship has declined sharply. What kind of business model is that? Perhaps Drudge sold out to some liberal billionaire. But who, when, and why? [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/matt-drudge-logs-off This story] follows the rabbit hole as far down as it goes. In the summer on 2019, Drudge switched the site's advertising account to a company owned by Margaret Otto. She lives in Mountain View, California and is the wife of Adrian Otto, an executive at Google. The pair has been managing server traffic for the Drudge Report since at least 2005.

 

The writer didn't come up with anyone beside the Ottos who are directly connected to the site at this point: no interns, no editors, no sign of what happened to Drudge himself. It's seems that everything is automated at this point. Drudge is the process of the being transformed into a scam site. Since August, it has been running "hidden ads" they charge the advertiser for, but that don't actually appear on the site. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 04:08, 26 November 2020 (EST)