How Google is funding misinformation around the world
Websites infamous for spreading fake news have been earning thousands of dollars from Google Ads.
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How Google's Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World
The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.
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How Google's Ad Business Funds Disinformation — ProPublica
A ProPublica analysis reveals how Google ad money enriches peddlers of election conspiracies, vaccine misinformation and climate change denial around the world.
Source: propublica.org
Investigation: Google shared user data with a sanctioned Russian ad company for months
The tech giant may have provided RuTarget with unique phone numbers, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity.
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Google Let Sberbank-Owned RuTarget Harvest User Data for Months — ProPublica
The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity.
Source: propublica.org
Google doesn't accept gun ads – but it does profit from them
An analysis shows the tech giant’s ad systems served more than 100 million ads from America’s firearm industry.
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Google Says It Bans Gun Ads. It Actually Makes Money From Them.
The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.
Source: propublica.org