{
  "id": 13229,
  "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5985627-google-fined-eu-digital-competition",
  "title": "Google hit with $1B fine in Europe",
  "summary": "The European Union fined Google about $1 billion on Thursday for violating its digital competition law, finding the company improperly favored its own products in Google Search and limited developers from directing users to third-party app stores. The EU's executive arm, the European Commission, hit the company with a 460 million euro fine and a...",
  "authors": "Julia Shapero",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": "google",
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2026-07-23T14:27:15.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-hill-technology",
  "source_name": "The Hill Technology",
  "source_homepage": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13229",
  "original_url": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5985627-google-fined-eu-digital-competition",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}