The background is of course that the NYT and other papers are involved in litigation and competition with Google and other social media giants for who gets the

The background is of course that the NYT and other papers are involved in litigation and competition with Google and other social media giants for who gets the revenue from the informtion economy, particular around links and aggregations like Google News. This doesn't mean that "big tech" isn't worthy of criticism or scrutity, but it can both be true that there are legitimate complaints about these companies and that traditional media outlets are going overboard with endless attacks on them due to external agendas.