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Still More Advertisers Pull Google Ads Over YouTube Hate Videos (morningstar.com)
"A week after Google apologized for running customers' advertisements alongside objectionable videos, triggering a change in policy, its YouTube site is still rife with examples that are angering more big advertisers and causing some to cut spending with the tech giant," reports the Dow Jones Newswire. Reporters from the Wall Street Journal spotted ads from Microsoft, Amazon, and Procter & Gamble appearing on hate videos -- and thus indirectly funding them. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Asked about the Journal's finding that their ads were still appearing with such content on YouTube as of Thursday night, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Dish Network Corp. said Friday they were suspending spending on all Google advertising except targeted search ads. Starbucks Corp. and General Motors Co. said they were pulling their ads from YouTube. FX Networks, part of 21st Century Fox Inc., said it was suspending all advertising spending on Google, including search ads and YouTube. Wal-Mart said: "The content with which we are being associated is appalling and completely against our company values."
An executive at one of the affected companies complained that Google "had assured us over the past few days that our brands were safe from this type of content. Despite their assurances, it's clear they couldn't give assurance."
An executive at one of the affected companies complained that Google "had assured us over the past few days that our brands were safe from this type of content. Despite their assurances, it's clear they couldn't give assurance."
this is just unamerican as trump!
Fuck off racist. The advertisers have a right to not have their ads associated with hate videos and their ad money going into their pockets. Don't pretend there isn't racist shit all over Youtube and that this is some leftist/SJW conspiracy to silence "dissenting opinions." In case you really are unaware, a few examples were listed in this comment below: https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10410451&cid=54111217. You can also find even more hate in the comments on videos. Google doesn't do jack shit about that partly because if they did, people like you would raise hell claiming censorship and a leftist conspiracy and all kinds of crazy ass shit.
Just over a month ago, the WSJ did a hitjob on Pewdiepie, one of Youtube's most-subscribed personalities, causing his ad funding and Youtube Red channel to get cancelled. Now, a Times of London investigation decided now is the time to publish an article pointing out something that must've been the case for many years that noone bothered making a stink about before: there's little to no vetting of whoever wants to attach ads to their videos. I have to wonder if this is the MSM doing a focused attack on New Media, now that the TPP was effectively buried by Trump. That makes me wonder how badly they were actually planning on abusing the DNS blocking etc. provisions of that treaty... maybe we dodged a bullet but they still have illegal-capacity magazines.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
They make up their own reality to fir their insane narrative. Normal people see, "Advertisers Pull Google Ads Over YouTube Hate Videos " and the nutcases see "Freedom Hating Marxist Leftist SJW Run Youtube Are Taking Down All Dissenting Videos, Cucks".