![]() Now, if you think of that set up, how rare that is, because everybody is so hungry for referrals, for ‘likes.’ I don’t need to be liked. I don’t care if I get one traffic referral from Google, or Bing, or Yahoo, or any of these others. All of them! I am not influenced by any of them. “I have remained completely independent from all of them. “Facebook has 2 billion users? This is garbage, this is designed to demoralize the individual.” said Drudge. “This whole social media stuff is bogus,” Drudge added. They’re taking your energy, and you’re getting nothing in return…”. “I don’t know why they’ve been successful in pushing everybody into these little ghettos, these Facebooks, these tweets, these Instagrams,” Drudge told Alex Jones Show viewers. Watch the full Matt Drudge Alex Jones interview below: Matt Drudge appeared on the Alex Jones show in 2015 and spoke about the coming end of free speech and how Internet users have been put into “Internet ghettos”. The links on his site are now no longer shedding light on alternative or controversial stories and instead are linking to mainline narratives pushed by the political establishment and big corporate media. The speculation abound is that he effectively sold out. They could have gone back to their roots and and previously successful format, but they didn’t care. Sure, it has fallen from record highs and that needs to be factored in but it’s not as if Drudge or those currently operating the web site didn’t watch this all in slow motion. Traffic to the site has fallen by more than 45% from the previous year. ![]() Since then it has fallen over 45% and is steadily shedding viewers. This helped his web site traffic hit record high traffic levels. Matt Drudge and his web site The Drudge Report were paramount in countering media disinformation while Trump was running for office in 2016. Once revered as a major source of controversial information (or links to it) especially from within Washington DC and the political establishment has now been reduced to a mega phone for the same agendas as the mainline Corporate news sources it once challenged. ![]()
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