My take is they are less defenders of copyright and are rather less interested in bearing the brunt of an infringement lawsuit caused by people posting content they do not have rights to.
Newsrooms were not operated at a loss. Newsrooms and the business side rarely interacted so as to keep up the appearance of journalistic integrity. That is what degraded in the 80s/90s when media companies became focused on profit rather than the service they provide
And it's this exact problem that will get solved with the immigration from climate change. Europe is going to get more African migrants fleeing climate change.
Yes, if you go to lemmy.world and look at their announcements from around the time they defederated from lemmy.NSFW they mention it was because of CASM.
The claim then was even less believable as it was republican guard were dumping babies from incubators.