This. The claim Google/Facebook are stealing from the news industry is neither here nor there, they want those stories to appear on social media/search results;

This. The claim Google/Facebook are stealing from the news industry is neither here nor there, they want those stories to appear on social media/search results; if they didn't, they could just paywall their entire websites. They are just trying to cry loud enough that the government will intervene, pretty much like their colleagues here in the EU.