Google's AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:04:03 +0000

Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company's latest tools, including its wildly hallucinating AI Overviews and chatbot-style AI Mode, are causing the amount of traffic being sent to publishers to plummet as users no longer feel the need to click through to find out more. It's an existential threat, especially for publications that primarily rely on ad impressions. publications have been hit