You're off the force Bobrovsky!

From what I understand, it's not just linking to the article. It's when the news is summarized on Google, to the point where you learn everything you need right from the search page rather than clicking the link to the article. So the company that hosts the article is losing as revenue because people are just reading the summary and not looking at the article itself.

Whenever I got a notification from Reddit, there was always that half second of a sinking feeling of "oh shit what did I say to piss someone off."