Brain on Fraud Apologetics (pluralistic.net)

"Brain on Fraud Apologetics" is a follow-up post by Cory Doctorow on his twitter thread (https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628948906657878016) about how he and his friend had been scammed. The Twitter thread was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34920760

Going one level up, isn't the subtext here that advertising corrupts the media it supports?