[dmz73]

There is something disturbing about your take on this: 1) People who did the work do not deserve to be compensated. 2) Advertising is more valuable than the product being advertised. I am struggling to understand this mindset.

[Aloisius]

Advertising isn't typically more valuable than the product being advertised (though that depends entirely on the consumer), but what is the product being used by Twitter?

Twitter is using a headline and maybe an image, provided by the news organizations specifically to act as an advertisement to get people to click on it and a link.

In this case, the value being provided to the news organizations is almost certainly higher than the value provided to Twitter. Meta certainly seems to have thought so.

Certainly news organizations should be paid by those who find their products valuable, but demanding payment for small quotes, something supposedly protected by international treaties as fair use, seems rather hypocritical for news organizations who are in the business of quoting others.