She'd spent years building a cancel culture narrative, then positioned her dramatic exit as living proof of her own thesis. Pretty straight line from there to her $150M exit. There's a lot of money in catering to the worldview of billionaires who see themselves as victims.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158535/self-cancellation-bar...
And where is capitalism? This is the 21th century equivalent of Palmerston paying off The London Times so that no one thinks too hard about why England would ever want to fight for the Confederacy.
- by one's own admission, doesn't know much about the matter (EDIT: correction, "didn’t know anything"), and yet
- still feels confident enough to voice one's approval for a given information source positioning itself as informative
Suppose it's a bad source—filled with sleights of hand and intellectual dishonesty for cheap laughs, for example. How would you know?