This is a flagrant money grab and no more. Years before social media existed these outlets loved the free traffic from aggregators like the drudge report. They

This is a flagrant money grab and no more. Years before social media existed these outlets loved the free traffic from aggregators like the drudge report. They just don't see a huge money pit there that they can go after. I don't understand why the tech companies haven't fought back harder against this extortion. YouTube even explicitly favors "authoritative" sources which is basically the companies trying to extort them here. Why don't they just drop them from their platform?