alt Hacker NewsMeta is the what makes this more interesting. It tells the story of a single company highlighting the overall problem. This is journalism 101. Anyone reading this is going to understand the issue isn't that Meta is breaking a law, but rather that the laws are setup in such a way that Meta can use them like this, and probably has undo influence to get it written this way.
Further, while they are doing this, it might not be what lawmakers intended.
Sorry, but this is all basic journalism going back decades.
Benefits of being able to pay a lot of smart people good salaries to lower your tax obligations.
This example just happens to use a handful of things that are in the current zeitgeist of concern (max eyeballs). Meta + Data Centers + AI + Billions + Tax = great ad dollars.
I have to imagine that NYT has an internal metric ad dollars / article. I'd be curious to see the top 10 money makers.