The west increasingly has completely independent news sources via places like YouTube.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...
The HN discussion:
Anyone who's opinion exists outside of the current groupthink is forced to leave these big platforms. It makes it harder for the average person within this group to express themselves because these platforms make it easy. But many will and new platforms will form outside of big tech. These new platforms will have time and space to rethink how they operate and perhaps they will bring in a new era of consumer control.