The phrase "are merely facilitating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a role or action that involves helping or making a process easier without taking full control or responsibility.
Example: "In this project, we are merely facilitating communication between the two teams to ensure everyone is on the same page."
Alternatives: "are simply enabling" or "are just assisting".
But with the father's sudden notoriety, everyone in the vast Sheehan family felt diminished or marginalized, as if they were merely facilitating his upward trajectory.
Because each antenna is assigned to a single subscriber, Aereo claims that it is merely facilitating the sort of individual, private viewership that is allowed by the Copyright Act.
Local and federal officials involved in the case have argued that Mr. Cromitie and the others were independently dangerous and that their desire to stage an attack was merely facilitated by the government.
Google's argument has been that its 1,500 UK staff aren't really selling advertising space; instead, they are merely encouraging and facilitating a sale that takes place in Ireland.
I'm just facilitating it.
Health Kit and Google Fit are merely aggregators that facilitate the ingenuity of software and hardware developers – and that ingenuity is currently being funded by big increases in health-related venture capital.
These questions are valid only insomuch as they presume that the goal of protest is merely to facilitate immediate change.
Though their proclaimed intent was merely to facilitate movement of consumer goods by sea, those goods already circulate, albeit imperfectly, through Gaza's land borders with Israel and Egypt.
People were asked whether they thought that EMS personnel should be trained to treat patients on site or if their job was confined to merely facilitating the patient's rapid transport to the nearest emergency department to receive medical care.
Brutsch and co., who are merely a small subgroup of a large and vocal population, argue that they do nothing wrong in posting — or facilitating the posting of — these images.
