AI News Scraping and Misinformation by Google
Foxglove, with the Independent Publishers Alliance, is pushing UK and European competition regulators to intervene and stop Google from using AI tools to scrape the work of independent news reporters and regurgitate it (often inaccurately) into summary form at the top of our screens. In July 2025, Foxglove submitted complaints to the UK Competition Markets Authority and Competition Appeals Tribunal, and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, calling for an injunction requiring Google to provide a permanent opt out for newsrooms.
AI News Scraping and Misinformation by Google
Organisation Name
Foxglove
Country/Jurisdiction
United Kingdom; European Commission
Grant Amount
EUR 46,000
Current Status
Ongoing
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Grant type
Litigation Track Support
Description
Foxglove, with the Independent Publishers Alliance, is pushing UK and European competition regulators to intervene and stop Google from using AI tools to scrape the work of independent news reporters and regurgitate it (often inaccurately) into summary form at the top of our screens. In July 2025, Foxglove submitted complaints to the UK Competition Markets Authority and Competition Appeals Tribunal, and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, calling for an injunction requiring Google to provide a permanent opt out for newsrooms.
In December 2025, in line with some of the asks in Foxglove’s submission, the European Commission announced it has begun a formal antitrust investigation into whether Google has breached EU competition rules through its use of AI Overviews.
"...stop Google from using AI tools to scrape the work of independent news reporters and regurgitate it..."
Strategic Goals
To set a precedent for global antitrust enforcement in the genAI era — ensuring tech platforms cannot exploit new technologies to entrench their dominance or rewrite the rules of engagement on a whim