Google is just being dishonest here. They are not "simply linking" but also showing important parts of the news on their own properties. News content is intere

Google is just being dishonest here. They are not "simply linking" but also showing important parts of the news on their own properties. News content is interesting in a way that it is time bound in some sense. If we are not actively searching for a news topic, a concise blurb is good enough to keep us informed and updated. For these short evolving updates, social media posts can also do the same but a news organization (is expected and typically do) will research, confirm and vet the source before publishing and have certain trust among public. When Google show links and a snippet of the content in real time, it is effectively acting as a combined alternate interface for the news sites. I doubt Meta or Google will be too happy if there's a popular product that aggregates a stream of interesting snippets & images from its user's public social media posts in real-time especially if they are losing money because of it. At the same time, Google as a search engine should be able to link to news sites and present those links if someone is actively researching a topic. But we know Google stopped being a proper search engine for a long time now.