It is very important to Facebook that the news companies keep reporting the news either for free or to a broad group of paying costumers because all that content and the discussions of them feed his platform.

Facebook will never pay for content. And you can’t really help but laugh at all the papers who bent over backwards to make sure they had a “social media precense” all they did was move their communities to Facebook for free and now they can’t cut the ties of providing free content to favebook because that would cut the ties to their readers.