( October 16, 2025, 17:33 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google's AI Overviews should be investigated for violating key provisions of the EU's digital services law and having a detrimental impact on Italian users, consumers and businesses, the FIEG Italian newspaper publishers federation has said. In a statement on Wednesday, FIEG said Google was becoming a "traffic killer" by putting AI responses to users' queries into search results without requiring users to click through to original sources. As a result, the product was competing directly with the content of publishers and also reducing their visibility, it said. FIEG said it had filed a formal complaint with Italy's Digital Services Coordinator.Statement, in Italian, follows:...
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