Well without getting into political discussion the networks have been bending over backwards trying to appease politicians particularly of a certain party, but not exclusive to that,party and the politicians in turn, make sure the networks are taken care of. One just has to look at what's going on up north in Canada, the govt there made a law that social media companies must pay the pay the Canadian networks who all own the news outlets for use of their of their news content, even if a person shares a news article as the Canadian Networks control the goverment narrative, which also follows the USA networks narrative. And now Facebook (Meta) and Google (Alphabet) are blocking all Canadian news stories on their medium, including all previous news stories., so if a user in Canada shares a news story that story is automatically blocked the user is warned and if they continue they end up having their account suspended.
So the social media networks don't have to pay the Canadian Networks anything, if they don't show any of their content
Bottom line is the Networks want more money, and not everyone wants to pay out the money.