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It still seems like letting people off the hook for media literacy is a knee jerk reaction. Since the dawn of Google, the VAST majority of people who use it have just treated the first result as gospel. I don't know if scraping that same content and putting it in the same place with the word "Summary" above it is materially that different.
The core problem here is still individuals not taking accountability for their own education. I would actually argue that holding Google to the standard of somehow being "arbiters of truth" is even more dangerous. No one should trust any information presented to them by an entity that has vested financial interests in influencing consumer behavior.