Is Candace Owens , the right-wing commentator who has more than five million subscribers on YouTube, more powerful than cable news?

I began thinking about this question last year, after it became clear that virally popular podcasters—Owens, Joe Rogan, Theo Von—had influenced the outcome of the Presidential election. At an unsatisfying and admittedly pedantic level, the answer depends, of course, on how you define power. Is it a matter of audience size? The amount of revenue generated? The hearts and minds won to a particular view? But the question led me to another that is also worth asking: whether the establishment media and the algorithm upstarts are actually in competition with one another. Sure, they’re both trying to get your attention, but are they describing and commenting on th

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