They were forced to make private arrangements to pay various media companies what they thought their content was making on their platform. In aggregate its roughly the same.

> In aggregate its roughly the same.

That's like saying if you pay tax you already pay for everything since your tax dollars is always involved in some part of it.

There's no separate section on Twitter or Facebook with said "news" with a separate charge. If I e.g. pay for a Twitter account I pay for it all.

Unless there's an opt-out, as a user I'm paying for it. Whether I use it or not.

>Unless there's an opt-out, as a user I'm paying for it. Whether I use it or not.

I mean you would be "paying" just as much to facey even if the scheme wasn't in place.