Press Gazette has long campaigned for Google and Facebook to more fairly reward the publishers of news content upon which they largely rely.

So it would be churlish of us to complain now that both tech giants have started transmitting serious amounts of cash back into the global news industry: $1bn each over the next three years for content via Google News Showcase and Facebook News.

But that doesn’t stop us holding up these deals to scrutiny – as our US editor William Turvill does today in his wide-ranging investigation.