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Google Caught In A HUGE Lie About Gun Manufacturer Ads



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Google has been caught lying about their advertising ethics by adding loopholes in their ad policy that permits gun manufactures to advertise through their system, generating hundreds of millions of impressions just from March to June of this year. Some of the gun ads appeared on the website Baby Games, a gaming website for children, the Merriam-Webster dictionary website, Glassdoor, and numerous other non-gun-related sites. John Iadarola and Caroline Johnson discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

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https://www.propublica.org/article/google-guns-ads-firearms-alphabet-advertising

"For roughly two decades, Google has boasted that it doesn’t accept gun ads, a reflection of its values and culture. But a ProPublica analysis shows that before and after mass shootings in May at a New York grocery store and a Texas elementary school, millions of ads from the some of the nation’s largest firearms makers flowed through Google’s ad systems and onto websites and apps — in some cases without the site or app owners’ knowledge and in violation of their policies.

Ads from gunmaker Savage Arms, for example, popped up on the site Baby Games, amid brightly colored games for children, and on an article about “How to Handle Teen Drama” on the Parent Influence website. Ads for Glock pistols loaded on a recipe site’s list of the “50 Best Vegetarian Recipes!” as well as on the quiz site Playbuzz, on the online Merriam-Webster dictionary and alongside stories in The Denver Post, according to Adbeat, which aggregates data about web and mobile digital ads.

Ads for guns also showed up on Britannica, the media site Heavy, the employer review site Glassdoor, and on MacRumors, U.S. News & World Report, Publishers Clearing House and Ultimate Classic Rock.”

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