Who Speaks When the Algorithm Speaks? A German Ruling on AI Overviews – Oxford Business Law Blog

‘A regional court in Munich has held Google directly liable for false statements produced by its AI Overviews. The decision, handed down on 28 May 2026 (LG München I, 28.05.2026, Az. 26 O 869/26), grants an interim injunction to a publishing house wrongly described, in a Übersicht mit KI (AI overview), as running subscription scams and operating under shifting names. The falsehood is ordinary enough. The liability theory the court used to reach it is not.’

Link: https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/oblb/blog-post/2026/07/who-speaks-when-algorithm-speaks-german-ruling-ai-overviews