Because they don’t produce the news articles themselves, they provide a way for people to share them.
If you cut a newspaper article out and mail it to someone, the post office isn’t the publisher, just a way of getting the information from one place to another. Same idea.
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Reply to ELI5, Why are Social Media companies platforms and not publishers? by oylejm
Because they don’t produce the news articles themselves, they provide a way for people to share them.
If you cut a newspaper article out and mail it to someone, the post office isn’t the publisher, just a way of getting the information from one place to another. Same idea.