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Did Google publish that? It didn't, it "answered with what it found" You asked Google, and it replied with data. There was no person at Google who decide that any of the following is true and hit a publish button.

For Google to be held liable, Google must know what is true and false for all it's knowledge base.

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Try searching: Which presidents are rapists?

On mobile at least, it really does look like Google is presenting a fact: http://imgur.com/a/DZP1H

Attribution at the top, and maybe more context would help.

Note that the article Google scraped this from is NOT calling those presidents rapists. It mentions one of them was accused, but not prosecuted.

It is being represented as the answer to my question - visually on google.com and explicitly from Google Home. This is different than a forum, Reddit, etc. hosting a variety of content for which it is not responsible. Google is effectively endorsing a specific piece of content in response to my question. This will either need to be refined or I suspect it will be challenged in court eventually.

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