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Search engines disrupted by generative AI; Will chatbots replace Google?

Search engines disrupted by generative AI; Will chatbots replace Google?

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Jun 23, 2025
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🧠 Artificial Intelligence & Tech

Search engines disrupted by generative AI
Radio-Canada
🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2173811/ia-generative-moteurs-recherche-google-bing

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Will chatbots replace Google?
Mon Carnet
🔗 https://moncarnet.com/2025/06/21/les-robots-conversationnels-vont-ils-remplacer-les-moteurs-de-recherche/

How AI appears online, according to browsing data
Pew Research Center
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2025/05/23/what-web-browsing-data-tells-us-about-how-ai-appears-online/

BBC threatens AI company over unauthorized content use
BBC
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7ndgylzzmo

News Corp bets big on AI, but journalists express concerns
The Guardian
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/20/news-corp-bets-big-on-ai-tools-but-journalists-voice-concerns

Journalists and AI: a Franceinfo investigation
France TV & Vous
🔗 https://www.francetelevisions.fr/et-vous/creators/societe/les-journalistes-et-lia-45048

How AI is affecting learning, according to MIT
TIME
🔗 https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

How RFI uses AI in its newsroom
RFI
🔗 https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/pourquoi-rfi-dit-%C3%A7a/20250620-comment-rfi-utilise-t-elle-l-ia

Les Affaires magazine tests AI to produce business content in Quebec
Vooban on LinkedIn
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vooban_les-affaires-ont-test%C3%A9-lia-pour-produire-activity-7341100689302970370-UN57

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🎙 Media, Journalism & Disinformation

Post-truth journalism: Quebec perspectives
RFI – Atelier des médias
🔗 https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/atelier-des-m%C3%A9dias/20250621-informer-%C3%A0-l-heure-de-la-post-v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9-points-de-vue-qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois

Why LinkedIn pressures you to overshare
Le Point
🔗 https://www.lepoint.fr/tiny/1-2592609

Correction: How we can all respond to misinformation online
Oxford Academic
🔗 https://academic.oup.com/book/6048

Reflections on the coverage of Israel at war
IJNet – International Journalists' Network
🔗 https://ijnet.org/fr/story/r%C3%A9flexions-sur-la-couverture-disra%C3%ABl-en-guerre

Seen, read, heard: Media picks of the week in Quebec
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/ohnYv9?sharing=true

Target 2030: Replacing you with AI
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/qkgS8r?sharing=true

Should media have published the girl’s photo after her rescue in Ontario?
Marie-Ève Martel
🔗 https://marie-evemartel.net/2025/06/20/fillette-disparue-les-medias-auraient-ils-du-publier-sa-photo-apres-son-sauvetage/

Reuters 2025 report: record distrust, rising chatbots, video dominance
INA – La Revue des médias
🔗 https://larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/rapport-reuters-2025-videos-reseaux-sociaux-chatbots-presse

Facebook suggests putting links in comments, not captions
Social Media Today
🔗 https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-advice-suggests-adding-links-in-comments-not-post-caption/750754/

Endorse or not? NYT’s indecision in a mayoral race
Columbia Journalism Review
🔗 https://www.cjr.org/laurels-and-darts/endorsement-indecision-imprecision-new-york-times-mayor-race-loomer-grok-national-guard-doge-chase.php


🌍 Global Conflict & Geopolitics

Iran and Israel escalate with words and weapons
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
🔗 https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/israel-and-iran-exchange-words-along-with-weapons

Israel-Iran on TV: where are the images of Iranian civilian victims?
Arrêt sur images
🔗 https://www.arretsurimages.net/emissions/arret-sur-images/israel-iran-a-la-tele-ou-sont-les-images-des-victimes-civiles-iraniennes

AI plays a role in Israel-Iran missile tensions
Radio-Canada
🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2174162/israel-iran-missiles-intelligence-artificielle?

Fake images flood the Iran-Israel online battle
Mon Carnet
🔗 https://moncarnet.com/2025/06/20/guerre-en-ligne-laffrontement-entre-liran-et-israel-envahi-par-les-images-truquees/

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🇨🇦 Quebec & Canada

Val-d’Or case: SQ avoids retrial despite calls for appeal
Radio-Canada
🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2174011/val-dor-sq-jugement-appel-enquete-radio-canada

Minister Lacombe pushes for legal protection of Quebec culture online
Le Devoir
🔗 https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/893641/victoire-demi-teinte-quebec-unesco

Report reveals strengths and weaknesses of Quebec’s audiovisual sector
Le Devoir
🔗 https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/893665/plan-sequence-audiovisuel-quebecois

Spotify urges CRTC not to regulate it like radio in Canada
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/xm1uZ1?sharing=true

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