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Kate Ashton

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We asked Google AI about big tobacco. Its answer was missing some controversial history Original

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By Kate Ashton Verified
| Radio New Zealand (RNZ) Verified
By Kate Ashton Philip Morris International is a company with a controversial history. The tobacco giant has been accused of aggressively marketing addictive, cancer-causing cigarettes and fuelling smoking-related deaths and diseases around the world. But when a colleague doing some research recently put the company into Google for a search, the result they received surprised them.
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We asked Google AI about big tobacco, its answer was missing some controversial history

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By Kate Ashton Verified
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Philip Morris International is a company with a controversial history. The tobacco giant has been accused of aggressively marketing addictive, cancer-causing cigarettes and fuelling smoking-related deaths and diseases around the world. But when a colleague doing some research recently put the company into Google for a search, the result they received surprised them.
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Victoria's treaty leaders have been elected. Here's how the new structure will work

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By Joseph Dunstan Verified, Kate Ashton Verified, Nate Woodall
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
The two freshly-appointed leaders of Victoria's First Peoples' Assembly say they're ready to press on with the work of delivering the state's first ever treaty — despite a Liberal campaign to scrap the agreement. The body will be co-led by returning assembly member and Dja Dja Wurrung traditional owner Djaran Murray-Jackson. He will be joined by former advisor and prominent activist Meriki Onus, a first-time assembly member elected to represent the metro region.
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