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Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides

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Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back. Google showed the overviews inconsistently and leaned on a small pool of sources, chief among them its…

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  1. 2026-09-01 13:03 · The Decoder
    Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides

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