Last year a group of small advertisers in California sued Facebook, claiming that it massively overestimated video ad viewing time (by as much as 900 percent) and failed to disclose the miscalculation once people inside the company had discovered it. During this period, company executives were also heavily promoting video at news industry events — contributing, as I argued last year, to publishers making disastrous “pivots to video” (soon followed by accompanying editorial layoffs) because they believed Facebook’s data was better than their own and that it showed a huge audience for news video waiting to be monetized.

That advertiser lawsuit has now been settled: The Hollywood Reporter reported Monday that Facebook agreed to pay the advertisers $40 million, though the company maintains it did nothing wrong.

Twitter, on the other hand, is, uh, less convinced of Facebook’s innocence in the matter — and many pointed out that while the advertisers are getting a (small, in Facebook terms) settlement, the journalists laid off in all that video-pivoting are getting nothing.

The journalists around the world that I know personally who pivoted to video and subsequently lost their jobs once the traffic hose turned off will not only never see a penny of this, they cannot get back the years they lost of their careers churning content for nothing. https://t.co/UpBlPWhFpf

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 8, 2019

The videos that were going viral at peak Facebook video overload weren’t even videos that would make sense in someone’s reel. They were glorified powerpoint-esque montages made by staffers learning as they went. They make no sense outside the platform. What a god damn waste.

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 8, 2019

How much is going to everyone who got fired because of “pivoting to video" https://t.co/coLblKlY5H

— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) October 7, 2019

None of it will go to the journalists who were canned or forced to “pivot to video” based on facebook’s BS. https://t.co/mqcZqbfoRh

— Robert Weintraub (@robwein) October 8, 2019

This is egregious. Facebook broke the journalism industry with this misstatement. A lot of good people lost their jobs as a result. https://t.co/fuPabyWuy5

— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) October 8, 2019

Put ir directly into a trust to be transparently disbursed to small newsrooms annually. And this should be a first rather than a one-time payment. With more and better journalism, the @Facebook-fueled Myanmar genocide may never have been allowed to happen, for example https://t.co/ZfNXcyQs7N

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) October 8, 2019

Separately, Facebook announced Tuesday that it’s giving $300,000 to European news publishers to help them experiment with video.