Twitter's Disengagement From News

Adam O'Sare runs Instagram at Facebook. I think what's really interesting to me is that they're trying to create Twitter, but not about news. If you live in Europe, you can't even sign up unless you use an Apple ID or Google Play account that is not based in the EU. But putting that aside, I wonder if this whole statement about saying, "Oh, we don't want to be about news" is because of the lawsuits they're in where they might have to pay publishers and people per post Or whatever.