Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t

  • Post category:Economics
  • Reading time:1 mins read
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Article written by Erika Seiber, Susie Neilson, Rachel Swan, St John Barned Smith, Ricardo Cano, Jessica Flores, Nora Mishanec, via https://www.sfchronicle.com on 12 May 2023

Google continues to sell ads on YouTube videos peddling climate lies with millions of views.
Coalition researchers found ads running on 200 YouTube videos that spread climate disinformation.
Prior to the release of our research, the eight videos Google had taken ads off of had around 2 million views.
Unfortunately, this progress is still overshadowed by the 57 million views on videos that Google is still selling ads on.
Why won’t Google expand its policy to include all forms of climate disinformation?

Please check out the complete article (source in English): https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/youtube-google-climate-ads-18092211.php
Generated and translated automatically by Nisba!

Leave a Reply