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Google sells ads to climate crisis deniers, reveals British newspaper

Even after announcing a new policy banning ads that promote denial of the climate crisis in 2021, the Google sold ads for a denialist conservative media outlet, which spreads misinformation, revealed an exclusive report from The Guardian newspaper. 'Climate change is a hoax' and 'climate change is a lie' are some of the search terms associated with the advertisements. 😠

According to report from The Guardian (*), O Daily Wire – media outlet founded by conservative influencer Ben Shapiro – paid the Google to advertise on search pages questionI walk if climate crisis it's real. The data that proves the claim was collected in a survey carried out by a misinformation watchdog group called Center for Countering Digital Hate (🇬🇧).

ADVERTISING

This means that when people searched for phrases like 'why is climate change fake' on Google, the subjects of Daily Wire were some of the first results that appeared, the research found.

According to the British newspaper, a spokesperson for Google did not dispute the new discoveries about the The Daily Wire, but said that “when we find content that crosses the line into political debate or a discussion of green initiatives to promote outright climate change denial, we remove those ads.” Already the The Daily Wire failed to respond to a list of detailed questions about your Google ad purchases Google.

Researchers from Center for Countering Digital Hate estimate that the The Daily Wire may have spent nearly $60 million on more than 150 Google search term ads. Google over the past two years on various topics including:

ADVERTISING

  • 'climate change is a hoax';
  • 'climate change is a lie';
  • 'why climate change is fake';
  • 'climate change debunked';
  • 'the real truth about wind turbines';
  • 'global warming is a hoax' and
  • 'the climate change scam'.

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