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What was once essentially impossible now seems to be happening right before our eyes. Drudge Report, the news aggregator that dominated the internet for two decades, has been losing traffic for five consecutive monthswith November marking a 28% reduction in traffic in just the last four.

Most attribute the loss of over 27 million monthly visitors since a peak in July to the anti-Trump shift the site has taken. Once a staunch Trump supporter, the sudden shift in narrative has caused speculation that Matt Drudge has quietly sold the site. Further speculation along the same lines points to Chinese, North Korean, or Iranian parties as having taken over the site with a very secretive deal in place, though these rumors are unconfirmed. (Editors Note: As the author states, these are unconfirmed rumors, as in nothing backing them whatsoever. I allowed inclusion of this point only because theres no evidence that theyre not true. Drudge has been acting strangely enough that even though its unlikely, its still plausible.)

During the 2016 election cycle, Drudge Report was an early and unflinching supporter of candidate Trump. All the way until shortly after the election, the front page constantly promoted candidate Trump while dogging on his GOP competitors during the primaries and Hillary Clinton during the general election. But things have changed. The site now highlights negative press and seemingly links only to left-leaning mainstream media publications for takes on anything pertaining to the White House.

One rumor floated is that Drudge has been unhappy with the Presidents inability to build the wall. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is another former Trump sycophant who turned against the President over illegal immigration. Like Drudge, Coulters influence has been waning in conservative circles. There have been strong Drudge Report alternatives popping up recently to replace Drudge for Trump supporters.

Whatever has gotten into Drudge, its not helping his bottom line (unless the rumors are true and its DEFINITELY helping his bottom line). More importantly, its no longer a benefit for America to have Drudge Report persist with its influence.

Editors Note #2: Of all the conspiracy theories surrounding Drudge, one important note to add anecdotally is that the few times Ive visited the site recently, I havent seen a change in style. This is important to understand because Matt Drudges style has always been unique in the way he handles headlines, picks stories, and roots for the Patriots. Ive always been able to tell when it was him directly versus someone working for him who crafts headlines, and nothing in that regard has changed. I believe Drudge is still in control. He just hates President Trump now for some reason.

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Drudge Report has hemorrhaged 28% of its traffic in four months - NOQ Report

Civility gets a bad rap these days.

One need look no further than our head of state for confirmation, but it could be argued that Donald Trump is no more capable of civility than he is of humility, justice, good faith, wise counsel or any other virtue we'd wish our leaders to have. The rest of us we can be better.

What disconcerts is that some of the finer minds and political talents of the younger generations in particular but not exclusively have formed a distorted impression about what it means to engage in a civil manner.

If not corrected, that will be the country's loss. Because young adults are often the most passionately bold in their beliefs and possess the conviction and time to lead substantial change, before the obligations careers and family take over their lives.

But people are rejecting the notion of civility. They wrongly believe it's the same thing as meekness, or at best moderation and politeness. That a civil person is docile and genteel to a point of ineffectiveness.

However, its root is the Latin "civilitas," which denotes that which pertains to citizenship, politics and government. This sense needs to be reclaimed, I think, and civility ought to describe the attitudes and comportment that promote our best public values, the constructive aims we hold dear.

Unfortunately, we're seeing more and more behavior that accomplishes the opposite.

Maryland's former governor Martin O'Malley provided a classic example on Thanksgiving eve. He reportedly launched a tirade at Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, when the two ran into each other in a Washington pub.

O'Malley reportedly challenged Cuccinelli to justify the Trump administration's practice of separating immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border and warehousing them in chain-link cages. Fair point and an honest reply certainly would have been illuminating but it was lost amid the drama. At one point, O'Malley asked Cuccinelli if he wanted to throw a punch, according to reporting by the Washington Post.

A few days prior, first lady Melania Trump was jeered and booed by teenagers in Baltimore. The students were reportedly reacting to the president's rude and unprovoked slandering of their city as "a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being" would want to live. Trump's remarks, in turn, were meant to insult Rep. Elijah Cummings, since deceased, who had criticized Trump.

The heckling carried on for a good portion of the first lady's short speech. The students never settled down while she tried to pitch a message to "be best."

They failed. Their beef is with the president, not the first lady. It would have been far more productive if they'd held signs asking her to press her husband to "be best."

Civility requires that we avoid precisely the behaviors in which Trump indulges: name-calling, slurs and childish derision. However, it doesn't require us to suppress our emotions, even anger.

College campuses, in particular, have become the scenes of the national civility crisis. Groups on the left and right battle it out in a familiar pattern. Right-wing student group invites incendiary right-wing speaker; left-wing students set out to shut it down, by any means necessary. An all-too-typical example is the appearance of conservative writer Ann Coulter at the University of California, Berkeley, in late November. Coulter's the author of, among other books, "Adios America! The Left's Plan to Turn our Country into a Third World Hellhole." The title tells you all you need to know about her and about the intentions of those who invited her. Anyone who seriously wanted to have a productive conversation about immigration even a very pointed and critical one would never invite Coulter as the speaker. She's a provocateur, not an honest scholar or thinker of any discernible public spirit. She's somebody you invite to campus to start a rumble.

And, as expected, more than 2,000 people protested, and there were a handful of arrests. Luckily there was no violence. To the university chancellor's credit, Berkeley had undergone a yearlong dialogue on free speech, including seminars on respectful dialogue, itself a response to campus disturbances over right-wing speakers in 2017.

The point of civility is not to keep the boat steady. Rather, the point is to reprove those who champion error and injustice unsparingly with words in reasoned debate. That can be discomfiting enough! The duty of civility is to articulate the highest and best values in civic life. It doesn't have to be nice, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't involve throwing a punch.

Mary Sanchez writes political commentary for the Tribune Content Agency.

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Snap stock (SNAP) is trading higher Friday after JMP Securities analyst Ronald Josey upped his rating on the social networking companys shares to Market Outperform from Market Perform, setting a price target of $20, well above yesterdays close at $14.45.

We are incrementally confident in Snaps ability to grow its user base, increase engagement given newer products and services, and improve overall monetization as the service attracts more advertisers and share of ad budgets, Josey writes in a research note.

He adds that the company is now more stable than it was when entering 2019, and as we look into 2020, we believe Snap is well positioned to continue to add [users] and close the monetization gap with other major social networks as its sales force reorg is now behind it and the company launches new and innovative advertising products.

Josey concedes that the stock looks more expensive than rivals, trading at 7.5 times enterprise value to estimated 2021 revenue. But he adds that Snap is operating and executing better, which should lead to continued revenue growth and improving overall profitability going forward. And he thinks the valuation can go higher still; his price target is based on a multiple of 10 times estimated revenue.

Josey points out that Snap reaches 90% of 13- to 24-year-olds, with 210 million daily active users globally.

We justify our valuation multiple given Snaps highly engaged audience of 13- to 24-year-olds (who are increasingly difficult to reach through traditional media), improved sales execution and ad formats, and ramping profitability, he writes. All this as the broader online advertising market continues to take share of traditional ads and Snap is one of the few platforms that we believe can take advantage of this transition.

Snap stock was up 2.3% to $14.79 in recent trading.

Write to Eric J. Savitz at eric.savitz@barrons.com

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Twitter has announced that it will expand its Trust and Safety Council advisory group to ensure that it considers the perspectives of a broader cross-section of society when establishing its platform rules and policies.

As per Twitter:

"In 2016,we established the Twitter Trust and Safety Council, which brings together more than 40 experts and organizations to help advise us as we develop our products, programs and the Twitter Rules. Weve been discussing internally and with the current members how we can make sure the Council best serves the people who use Twitter, and heard feedback that we needed to broaden membership to include a more diverse range of voices and organize members to have deeper conversations."

To meet such need, Twitter says that the Council will now be made up of several dedicated groups, "each focused on advising us on important issues that contribute to real-world harm".

Those key areas will be:

Twitter says that making a more specific focus on these areas will help it adapt to rising challenges faster, while expanding the representative groups within its council will ensure more perspectives are considered in its policy decisions.

Twitter's also looking to establish working groups on additional areas of concern:

"One such group will work on the issues we face as we broaden our interpretation of dehumanization."

These are key issues, and ensuringthat as many perspectives as possible are considered will ideally help Twitter to formulate more inclusive, adaptive rules, which cater to evolving demand. Interestingly, Twitter's also creating a separate internal group to examine the possibilities of a decentralized social networking model, which, among other things, may be able to address these same concerns by opening them up to even more inputs.

No social platform, or indeed, any space where such a wide range of different people interact, will ever be able to solve all of these issues, as such. But by opening up the discussion to a broader set of perspectives, and taking in more considerations, Twitter will better ensure that its policies are inclusive, relevant, and get to the heart of each issue.

Twitter says that it will share more details about its processes on such next month.

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