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These companies have controversial pasts. Google AI didn't tell us

ABC Australia · Jun 2, 2026, 7:12 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

Key takeaways

  • Google's AI overview draws on a range of sources it deems reliable, which often includes a company's own website.
  • The tobacco giant has been accused of aggressively marketing addictive, cancer-causing cigarettes and fuelling smoking-related deaths and diseases around the world.
  • But when a colleague doing some research recently put the company into Google for a search, the result they received surprised them.

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Google's AI overview draws on a range of sources it deems reliable, which often includes a company's own website. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)

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The tobacco giant has been accused of aggressively marketing addictive, cancer-causing cigarettes and fuelling smoking-related deaths and diseases around the world.

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