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So if the actual page is defamatory then Google quoting it verbatim is protected.

But if Google accurately summarizes the defamatory page, then the summary is defamatory?

It could presumably accurately summarise it while still sticking to reported speech. In German there is a grammatical tense that is basically only used for this; it's pops up in newspaper reporting a lot where they don't want to endorse the statements they are reporting.

Did you read the article?

The whole point is that these particular defamatory claims weren't made by some third-party, but hallucinated entirely by Google's own AI.

There is no "accurate summary". Just a pack of lies fabricated in-house at Google.

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