Oh, yes. Facebook has made similar threats to publishers here.
You know, what's ironic about this is that we're arguing that there's a power imbalance, that Facebook has monopsony power. When they behave this way with these bullying tactics, basically threatening to shut down the news, it evinces their power. Who could conceivably talk this way unless they had the power to make these threats? I feel like they're just digging themselves in a hole and highlighting the very reason we're here, which is the exercise of monopsony power that is depriving news publishers of any positive price of value that they're contributing to these dominant platforms.