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I think things like Nebula for video, Spotify for audio, and Kobo or Amazon ebook subscriptions do this. Users pay the central management a subscription to access the library, and then creators are paid from that pool of money based on views. In some of these systems, there aren't any ads.
I subscribe to a few news sources, but I occasionally read an article from many others. I might pay for a similarly structured news library, that handled tracking my reading and distributed payment proportionately to every source I interacted with. I'm not sure such a thing exists, but hope someone can create it and make it work.
I don't believe this alone would solve our societal misinformation problem. Engagement-driving dark patterns work on deep levels of our brain hard wiring, and just having a healthier alternative available won't stop people addicted to current unhealthy "news" sources. That's a much harder problem and I have no idea where to even start.
It is a digital slavery system. If a different business model prevailed, the stalkerware junk could be removed. That realigns news with meritocracy. The right to own a part of people to manipulate and exploit really is the fork in the road where everything went wrong for civil rights.
Inherited wealth is the other major issue. Large scale inherited wealth is civilization scale terminal cancer. Business acumen and intelligence are not hereditary in humans. Meritocracy rules all things. Without meritocracy the system always fails. War is usually the only way to fix the lack of meritocratic hierarchy. Japan is one of the only countries that has solved the issue civilly by preventing most of the wealth transfer. Those that cannot lead turn to exploitation as their only form of business that is reliable for returns. You cannot get more exploitive than "You will own nothing..." You have no autonomy or self determination as a citizen when you own nothing. The reason you own nothing is the chain of legislative tyranny that is rooted in digital slavery and stalkerware of the "free„ internet.