In Germany ALL! the big news media sites started doing affiliate marketing, having thousands of pages in the search engines with "top 10 best toaster" "top 10 best pc mouse" etc. As you say, they are history soon. Due to their fake news, working for variant agendas who pay them (eg. Bill Gates is heavily in in Germany), many (still too less) people woke up and understand more and more you can not trust news media anymore. So, not so many visit their sites = less money from ads, more agendas enter the market and pay em because it gets cheaper to buy your self fake reputation or push your agenda through news.

In short, the system is dying. And Covid is their last attempt to take control back. So far they doing well. Let's see how far they can push their social credit system to reward or punish the people. E.g. if you do not read their news media but alternative news, your social rating drops and you are not allowed to travel or enter a supermarket etc. because you are a risk for society. Covid and the digital passports are their way to this system. First it looks like it's only for vaccines. But after couple false flag attacks (e.g. some "crazy" guy read fake news, got nuts and shot xx people etc.), they add more and more to the passport. Of course they do it slowly step by step to wake up as few as possible. This will take many years to install. Generation by generation.