Facebook and Google are not dependent on the news companies. They can make plenty of money without them. We've already seen Google shut down Google News in Spai

Facebook and Google are not dependent on the news companies. They can make plenty of money without them. We've already seen Google shut down Google News in Spain when they tried to force payments there. Even with this form of government intervention, I expect both companies to remove or block links to news wherever the law allows it, rather than pay the publishers.