Penske Media, which owns publications including Rolling Stone, Variety and Billboard, is suing Google , alleging that the search giant is illegally using their content and that of other publishers to fill out the AI Overviews that have become a fixture at the top of Google search results.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in US District Court for the District of Columbia, Penske argues that Google's "misconduct" through its monopoly in online search has coerced publishers to acquiesce to misappropriation of their content, diverting readers away from publishers' own sites and depriving them of the ability to earn money from content created by their journalists.

"It is reasonably foreseeable that Google's forced entry into the online publishing output market will result in less traffic to other

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