By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Websites, newspapers, and newspaper websites made billions from those ads. Amazon's payola scheme (along with Google, Facebook and other tech monopolists) have captured almost all of that money. 46/ 112715
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026As Tim Wu points out, the money Amazon makes from payola exceeds the advertising revenue received by *all the newspapers in the world* by *300%*. 47/ 116847
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Alongside that number and its implication for the news media, Jeff Bezos buying the *Washington Post* and turning its editorial page into a sewer of shitty Ayn Rand fanfic barely registers. 48/ 117112
