Bots Corrupted Advertising

> Fou believes the industry was corrupted around a decade ago, when a series of opaque middlemen entered the scene.

Here's where the reporter goes astray. History teaches us that all ad supported media gets corrupted by ads. Radio has had innumerable payola scandals. The FCC cracked down on broadcast TV in the '50s because networks basically ran nothing but ads, hour long shows that were sponsored by single corporations. Part of newspapers' decline is due to letting advertising shape reporting, and the other part is financial problems when ad dollars went elsewhere.

Advertising is corrupt at it's core. Bots only accelerate the corruption. Botherders disrupted corruption

(Submitted as "How Bots Corrupted Advertising", but something is removing the "How")