Sure, but now no one is getting the advertising revenue. So the domestic news companies are not better off, the best case scenario is that they are exactly as they were, but most likely they are worse off since they simply don't even get the traffic.
They weren't getting it anyway. Both Google and Facebook represented poor deals for news media and their market power made it impossible to get a better deal.
Miraculously, after the Australian government gets involved, Google is now making deals with news media. Facebook will do the same eventually.
