Call me old fashioned but I bet they would do a lot better if they told the truth for once

Call me old fashioned but I bet they would do a lot better if they told the truth for once https://t.co/h9OubpOibf

— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) October 19, 2025

Other good points in the comments to explain the fall in news website traffic are the increase in paywalls and/or intrusive ads on news sites.

Also, AI. People are reading the AI response to their Google search and NOT clicking through to the websites where AI got the info.

— John Wake (@JohnWake) October 20, 2025

https://sherwood.news/tech/google-faces-its-first-big-lawsuit-for-ai-summaries-rolling-stone-lawsuit/

Good point!

— John Wake (@JohnWake) October 19, 2025