What about small independent news outlets that rely on social media by creating pages in order to voluntarily post links to their content, so that people can fo

What about small independent news outlets that rely on social media by creating pages in order to voluntarily post links to their content, so that people can follow them in order to see their content in their feeds? Those are gone now. I used to think like you. I'm not a big social media user and it's easy to think of social media as a cesspool of clickbait and rage, but now that Meta has pulled even the pages of these outlets I realized that I'm suddenly not getting severe weather alerts and updates on local events that I was used to getting from a particular small indie outlet. How exactly was Facebook hurting that indie outlet by giving them a platform and free traffic?