How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2)

Last week, Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI-generated summaries to you, instead of favoring human-written articles. We talk to Platformer’s Casey Newton about why this is happening, why publishers are nervous, and about a secret new internet you may not have heard of, a paradise to which we may all yet escape.
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Search Engine - How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 1) (pjvogt.substack.com/p/a-big-announcement-from-…)
Platformer - Google's broken link to the web (platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pic…)
404 Media - Why Google is shit now (404media.co/podcast-why-google-is-shit-now-404…)