What Annalee Newitz thinks about Google

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American journalist and science fiction author; editor-in-chief of io9 from 2008 to 2015; author of the novels The Terraformers and Automatic Noodle and the nonfiction Stories Are Weapons.

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1. 10 Jun 2026, 18:36 UTC

   Our readingGoogle should be legally liable in the US for false answers in its AI Overviews.

   Their wordsIn Germany, Google is liable for false answers in its AI "overviews" that pop up at the top of search results. I wish we had this in the States. Make them pay for misleading users.

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3. 20 May 2026, 03:41 UTC

   Our readingGoogle’s AI search is killing the open web its own business depends on.

   infrastructure

   Their wordsWith its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on.

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