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

The DecoderSeptember 1, 2026en

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 own platform YouTube. Whether earlier safeguards against AI answers on election questions still apply, Google left open. The article Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides appeared first on The Decoder .

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