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Vice News was once celebrated as the internet-based hope for
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capital and changes in the big social media algorithms.

But what makes the graveyard of online news media so dangerous for
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newsrooms or going out of business, leaving fewer and fewer reliable
news sources to inform the public and hold the powerful accountable.

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