money is money. they take adds from the CCP and other dictatorships no issue, twitter has stated it literaly cant function anymore without CCP funding.

1st world govts have zero interest in breaking up big business and hasnt cared in decades. their was a vague attempt to break up microsoft by the usa, they failed and said yolo.

i dont think thats it entirely. as weve seen with the mass adoption of the internet legacy media tries to claw its fingers into every social media platform wether it gets views/clicks or not. i mean look at any site that allows you to see actual views/clicks and theirs tons of news outlet posts/vids/streams etc with hilariously tiny numbers. youtube is full of official cnn/msnbc/fox etc videos with views in the hundreds, not hundreds of thousands, hundreds. yet they still crank out content