Read the following passage and answer the question:
Social media platforms have significant advantage over news publishers because of their size and superior information about users. Driven by the need to generate the maximum possible returns for investors, they do not shy away from leveraging this advantage when negotiating commercial agreements.
While news publishers in many countries come together as a consortium to further their collective interests, the rivalry among news publishers prevents them from presenting a united front to bargain for their collective interests. As a result, in individual negotiations with social media platforms, the revenue share, if they ever get any, is trivial compared to the total money made by social media platforms.
Local news publishers, often very small, suffer disproportionately, to the extent that many have gone bankrupt in the last few years. Those who have survived have become more content-producing vendors. They exist to feed the social media monster, which decides which article will appear in which readers feed to maximize advertising revenues. Journalistic responsibility to provide citizens with the information they need to make important decisions about their lives, communities and governments is seldom a consideration.
Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion $\mathrm{A}$ and the other is labelled as Reason $\mathrm{R}$.
Assertion $\mathrm{A}$: Social media platforms are able to control the type of content that will appear in a reader's feed.
Reason $\mathrm{R}$: They do so because they are quite concerned about individual likes and dislikes of users.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- Both $\mathrm{A}$ and $\mathrm{R}$ are correct and $\mathrm{R}$ is the correct explanation of $\mathrm{A}$.
- Both $\mathrm{A}$ and $\mathrm{R}$ are correct but $\mathrm{R}$ is not the correct explanation of $A$.
- $\mathrm{A}$ is correct but $\mathrm{R}$ is not correct.
- $\mathrm{A}$ is not correct but $\mathrm{R}$ is correct.
