Google apologized today for YouTube ads in the U.K. that appeared against videos touting highly extremist views, leading the British government as well as major brands like Marks & Spencer, Hsbc, Audi, The Guardian, and L’Oréal to pull their British market advertising from the platform.
The revelation of the ad placements first appeared last month in The Times.
Ads ran against videos from former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke; Muslim preacher Wagdy Ghoneim, who is banned from the U.K. for inciting up hatred; and fundamentalist Christian pastor Steven Anderson, the Financial Times reports. As a result of this discovery, research analyst Brian Wieser of Pivotal downgraded Google stock from buy to hold today, saying that the company faced “a serious issue in the U.K. with brand safety issues,” which could ultimately have “global repercussions.”
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The revelation of the ad placements first appeared last month in The Times.
Ads ran against videos from former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke; Muslim preacher Wagdy Ghoneim, who is banned from the U.K. for inciting up hatred; and fundamentalist Christian pastor Steven Anderson, the Financial Times reports. As a result of this discovery, research analyst Brian Wieser of Pivotal downgraded Google stock from buy to hold today, saying that the company faced “a serious issue in the U.K. with brand safety issues,” which could ultimately have “global repercussions.”
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- 3/20/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
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