Digital advertising worth US$153m spent across sites with anti-Asian hate speech content, finds Nielsen
Details 20 May 2021 A recent study by Nielsen conducted between 1 January 2020 to 1 April 2021 found that US$153 million in digital advertising was spent across websites that published articles including hate speech against Asians in the first quarter of 2021. Meanwhile, ad campaigns from a dozen Fortune 500 companies and at least 66 brands were found adjacent to content including anti-Asian hate speech. Additionally, there were 38.1 million visitors to digital news sites that published articles flagged as including hate speech against Asians in the first q...