> "Executive director Sue Gardner is now seeking to change the mission of the newsroom to one based on advocacy against the tech companies. She argues that The Markup needs to be a ‘cause’ rather than a ‘publication.’"

> "She has removed any reference to investigative journalism from our Editorial Value Proposition. She has urged me to run articles with headlines such as ‘Facebook is a dumpster fire.’"

This is pretty damming, the most important thing to a news organization is it's credibility. Going to their website it looks like they haven't launched yet, this may cause them to be DOA.