In the span of a week, a late-night host became collateral in a culture war over free speech. A landmark antitrust case challenged how digital advertising has been rigged in plain sight. And TikTok’s imminent fate in the U.S. signaled the geopolitical fault lines now running through entertainment itself.
These weren’t isolated events – they were symptoms of a larger fracture.
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