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minimus

I still regularly read the Drudge Report but it seems he’s definitely pushing an anti Trump agenda. I wonder if this will have a negative impact on Trump.

Minimus, Matt Drudge sold out to a Google associated fake shell company, Granite Cubed (renamed Voranda). The new "ad partners," Margaret and Adrian Otto, also have ties to Jeffrey "honey pot" Epstein. That raises the question that Drudge may have been extorted into handing over his famously successful, conservative-leaning site.

Thus the 180 degree turnaround to 24/7 Trump Derangement Syndrome and Leftist agitprop. It's essentially a biased Google news feed with Drudge branding, targeting Trump supporters to give up. NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

BuzzFeedNews, August 2019: A change to the secretive publisher’s business has revealed new details about his operation and is attracting scrutiny from the ad industry.

Friedman said Granite Cubed’s lack of a track record and profile in the industry will be a challenge if it tries to sell ad space directly to brands and agencies. “Certainly if you decide to go to big brands and sell directly, the Granite Cubed thing is going to be challenging. [Brands] get 100 requests a week for meetings and this probably isn’t going to float to the top,” even if they’re representing Drudge, he said.
Others in the industry say they had concerns about Drudge long before the switch to Granite. A manager at another ad tech company told BuzzFeed News he blocked the Drudge Report from its systems in 2017 due to “unacceptable auto-refreshing practices.”
After being loaded in a web browser, Drudge’s site automatically reloads itself after two minutes. The manager said the frequent refresh rate for Drudge Report raised concerns about the number of ads being loaded that were actually able to be viewed by users.
“The page was refreshing approximately every 120 seconds, with no consideration given to user activity. The user could have it open in a background tab and it would accrue [ad] impressions all day long,” said the manager, who requested anonymity because he’s not authorized to speak to the media about specific websites.