Weekly Quiz: Online News Act, Optimizing Domestic Bliss, AI Overviews

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const title = "Online News Act, Optimizing Domestic Bliss, AI Overviews"; const date = "July 26, 2025"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_JUL25_HR-ificationOfMarriage-1536x1024.jpg", title: "Marriage Is Broken. A Colour-Coded Calendar Might Help", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/can-office-tools-help-couples-optimize-for-domestic-bliss/", question: "Business consultant Eve Rodsky’s 2019 book, Fair Play, and its accompanying set of playing cards have become popular with families attempting to balance everyday life. The idea of the cards is to first recognize the labour that gets done and then redistribute it more equitably within the household. When “fair players” discuss their wins and losses in online forums, they often use Rodsky-approved jargon like CPE. What does the acronym stand for?", options: [ "Constant, Parental, Exhaustion", "Chore, Preparation, Exchange", "Child, Parent, Expectation", "Conception, Planning, Execution", ], answer: "Conception, Planning, Execution", correct: "CPE, which stands for conception, planning, execution, describes a core tenet of the Fair Play method, where being responsible for a task (say, a kid’s after-school sport) means managing every aspect of said task, from research and registration to game days and equipment needs (and doing it without a reminder from your partner). In her own research, Rodsky found that men are often willing executors: they cook family meals, attend games, run last-minute errands as directed but rarely participate in the time-consuming and highly tedious planning and administration that hold everything together (or “the mental load”).", incorrect: "CPE, which stands for conception, planning, execution, describes a core tenet of the Fair Play method, where being responsible for a task (say, a kid’s after-school sport) means managing every aspect of said task, from research and registration to game days and equipment needs (and doing it without a reminder from your partner). In her own research, Rodsky found that men are often willing executors: they cook family meals, attend games, run last-minute errands as directed but rarely participate in the time-consuming and highly tedious planning and administration that hold everything together (or “the mental load”).", }, { title: "If You Think We Have Press Freedom, Try Sharing This Story on Instagram", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/if-you-think-we-have-press-freedom-try-sharing-this-story-on-instagram/", question: "In June 2023, the Canadian government passed Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act, mandating that big tech pay media organizations to distribute their content. Google complied, but Meta refused to pay up. Yet, back in 2021, Meta submitted to similar demands in which country?", options: [ "Australia", "The United Kingdom", "Singapore", "The United States of America", ], answer: "Australia", correct: "In 2021, Australia passed the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, a code of conduct that governs commercial relationships between Australian news businesses and certain “designated” digital platforms. Meta complied in Australia, but when California proposed a similar bill in 2023, it was killed. According to Clayton Weimers, executive director of RSF USA, the North American branch of Reporters Without Borders, the company ran a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to prevent the bill from becoming law. Google also jumped in to strike a $250 million (US) deal to support journalism and AI research initiatives. Last year, Meta said it wouldn’t renew its Australian payment deals.", incorrect: "In 2021, Australia passed the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, a code of conduct that governs commercial relationships between Australian news businesses and certain “designated” digital platforms. Meta complied in Australia, but when California proposed a similar bill in 2023, it was killed. According to Clayton Weimers, executive director of RSF USA, the North American branch of Reporters Without Borders, the company ran a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to prevent the bill from becoming law. Google also jumped in to strike a $250 million (US) deal to support journalism and AI research initiatives. Last year, Meta said it wouldn’t renew its Australian payment deals.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/simon-lee-U00xWfo5yJA-unsplash-1200x800.jpg", title: "The AI Revolution Is a Heist", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/the-ai-revolution-is-a-heist/", question: "AI is already having a major impact on the basic fabric of digital life. One example, noted by writer Luke Savage, is the rise of AI-generated overviews that pop up on search engines. According to statistics cited in The Hub, due to AI summaries, what percentage of Google searches are now “zero-clicks” (searches where the user never leaves the Search Engine Results Page)?", options: [ "30 percent", "50 percent", "60 percent", "80 percent", ], answer: "60 percent", correct: "In writing for The Hub, journalist Rudyard Griffiths cited some truly gobsmacking statistics: according to recent studies, with the increase of AI summaries, upwards of 60 percent of all Google searches are now termed “zero-click,” or the user never leaves the Search Engine Results Page (SERP). AI summaries are also cited to have reduced website traffic by 30 to 70 percent, depending on the search term. For his part, Griffiths recognizes that the implications here—the increased centralization of data and information, a more homogenized online experience, etc.—will, in critical ways, be bad even if searches consequently become more reliable and efficient. Regardless, he rightly observes that the most profound effects will be material and economic.", incorrect: "In writing for The Hub, journalist Rudyard Griffiths cited some truly gobsmacking statistics: according to recent studies, with the increase of AI summaries, upwards of 60 percent of all Google searches are now termed “zero-click,” or the user never leaves the Search Engine Results Page (SERP). AI summaries are also cited to have reduced website traffic by 30 to 70 percent, depending on the search term. For his part, Griffiths recognizes that the implications here—the increased centralization of data and information, a more homogenized online experience, etc.—will, in critical ways, be bad even if searches consequently become more reliable and efficient. Regardless, he rightly observes that the most profound effects will be material and economic.", }, { title: "China Secretly Executed Four Canadians. A Former Prisoner Explains Why", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/canadians-killed-in-china/", question: "Earlier this year, China executed four Canadian prisoners convicted on drug-related charges, despite repeated pleas for clemency from Canadian officials. What does former prisoner Michael Kovrig cite as his “pessimistic interpretation” of why China executed the four prisoners?", options: [ "To signal anger over Canada’s moves on trade, investment, and foreign interference", "As revenge for the release of Michael Kovrig in September 2021", "To eradicate trafficking of opium, heroin, and methamphetamine by foreigners", "To satisfy public demands for capital punishment", ], answer: "To signal anger over Canada’s moves on trade, investment, and foreign interference", correct: "Former prisoner Michael Kovrig suggests a pessimistic interpretation of the executions, would be that the Chinese Communist Party employed a classic strategy of xia ma wei—an initial show of strength to psychologically intimidate—and deliberately moved the cases to their terminal stage to signal ire over Canadian moves on trade, investment, and foreign interference that obstructed Beijing’s objectives. In March, China also introduced countermeasures against foreign sanctions. For a decade, PRC police and prosecutors have been trying to get Chinese individuals in Canada they consider fugitives to return to face charges. For reasons that should by now be evident, the Canadian government has been increasingly reluctant to sign an extradition treaty or otherwise co-operate. Kovrig says this could have left Chinese law enforcement officials ill-disposed toward an “unreliable” Canada.", incorrect: "Former prisoner Michael Kovrig suggests a pessimistic interpretation of the executions, would be that the Chinese Communist Party employed a classic strategy of xia ma wei—an initial show of strength to psychologically intimidate—and deliberately moved the cases to their terminal stage to signal ire over Canadian moves on trade, investment, and foreign interference that obstructed Beijing’s objectives. In March, China also introduced countermeasures against foreign sanctions. For a decade, PRC police and prosecutors have been trying to get Chinese individuals in Canada they consider fugitives to return to face charges. For reasons that should by now be evident, the Canadian government has been increasingly reluctant to sign an extradition treaty or otherwise co-operate. Kovrig says this could have left Chinese law enforcement officials ill-disposed toward an “unreliable” Canada.", }, ];