Google has failed to persuade a judge in California to throw out a lawsuit accusing the technology giant of monopolizing the online search market.

Google has told the EU it will not comply with a forthcoming fact-checking law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios. The company states that it will not be adding fact checks to search results or YouTube videos and will not use fact-checking data when ranking or removing content.

Google has notified the European Union that it won’t integrate work from fact-checking organizations into Search or YouTube, ahead of the bloc’s plans to expand disinformation laws. Google had previously signed a set of voluntary commitments that the EU introduced in 2022 to reduce the impact of online disinformation,

Google has informed the EU that it will not comply with proposed requirements to integrate third-party fact-checking into Search and YouTube, as outlined in the EU's evolving Code of Practice on Disinformation.

Google won't start adding fact-checking to Search because of the EU, because apparently the current system is just fine.