By The Dallas Morning News
Publication Date: 2026-01-21 07:30:00
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been aggressive in fighting bad behavior by tech companies. Last year, he won a historic $1.375 billion settlement with Google to protect data privacy and security rights.
Paxton went after Google for secretly tracking people’s movements, their private searches and even their voice prints and facial geometry.
With that win behind him, Paxton should consider looking into Google’s shifty behavior that is damaging news gathering and giving the company an unfair advantage in the race to dominate AI.
The company is forcing publishers to give the company’s AI bots access to their content or risk being dropped from Google search entirely, giving Google a significant advantage that could extend the company’s monopoly into the realm of AI and further damage the news business’ ability to generate original content.
