Gregory's Server
> The issue is if USERS are posting links to news, then making Meta pay for...
Just like journalists post on media sites and make the publishers pay for their content.
This analogy is of course imperfect, but useful, I believe. Meta has editorial control (they block and manage visibility of posts), and they make money on ads around the posts, after all.
Just like a media site which has editorial control over articles and makes money on ads published along them.