Guardian pulls ads from Google [and YouTube] after they were placed next to extremist material

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 16, 2017 at 3:39:58 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Guardian pulls ads from Google [and YouTube] after they were placed next to extremist material
>
>
> Guardian pulls ads from Google [and YouTube] after they were placed next to extremist material
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/16/guardian-pulls-ads-google-placed-extremist-material
>
>      The Guardian has withdrawn all its online advertising from
>    Google and YouTube after it emerged that its ads were being
>    inadvertently placed next to extremist material.  Ads for the
>    Guardian's membership scheme are understood to have been
>    placed alongside a range of extremist material after an agency
>    acting on the media group's behalf used Google's AdX ad
>    exchange.  David Pemsel, the Guardian's chief executive, wrote
>    to Google to say that it was "completely unacceptable" for its
>    advertising to be misused in this way.  He said the Guardian
>    would be withdrawing its advertising until Google can "provide
>    guarantees that this ad misplacement via Google and YouTube
>    will not happen in the future".  The content included YouTube
>    videos of American white nationalists, a hate preacher banned
>    in the UK and a controversial Islamist preacher.
>
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>
> --Lauren--
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