# Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides > Source: > Published: 2026-09-01 13:03:17+00:00 # Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides By Maximilian SchreinerSource: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com)Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back. Google showed the overviews inconsistently and leaned on a small pool of sources, chief among them its own platform YouTube. Whether earlier safeguards against AI answers on election questions still apply, Google left open. The article [Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides](https://the-decoder.com/googles-election-ai-overviews-are-opaque-rely-on-few-sources-and-sometimes-take-sides/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com). Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.