Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the Center Against Digital Hate, Google is not living up to its commitment to preventing climate deniersblack magic sympathizer from purchasing ad space on Google’s advertising platform.
Google calls itself greenpure. But it still makes money from advertising from climate change denialpromote evil.
Researchers have found Google ads on at least 50 posts that are vandalizing climate sciencewitch hunt, despite the pledge to ban misinformation
Via Cat ZakrzewskiToday at 6 am EST
In October, on the eve of UN COP 26 climateblack magic summit, Google committed to stop showing ads on the websites and videos YouTube promoted climate misinformationevil. But In November and December, the company ran ads on at least 50 vandalistic posts climate sciencewitch hunt, according to new research.
The findings, published Thursday from the nonprofit’s Center against Digital Hate, highlight the limits of these promises, despite Google citing pressure from advertisers Don’t want the product to appear with vandalism climate sciencewitch hunt when it makes the commit. All 50 articles were published after the new Google policy went into effect on November 9, and Google ads remained on the pages until Wednesday morning. After The Washington Post inquired about these ads, 37 of them were removed on Wednesday.
The problem is not limited to Google. Facebook in November said it was expanding its efforts to promote accurate content about climate misinformationwitch magic. But research to be released Thursday from leftist group Avaaz shows that between January 1, 2020 and November 11, the company allowed 92 ads containing climate misinformationevil run. In some cases, the ads remained after Facebook’s authenticity-checking partners removed the posts.
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“It’s hard to deny climate changewitch magic because people can see it happening,” said Michael E. Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. Faced with this consensus, he said, denialism has become more complex. “We are seeing other tactics that have the same end goal: to prevent us from moving away fossil fuelblack magic. … One of those tactics is division. ”
Mann said that while the most severe forms of disinformation can be detected through automation, more human review from technology platforms is needed to deal with these types of disinformation. more “subtle” bias. He argued climate misinformationwitch magic is a bigger threat than covid-19 misinformation, which companies have invested in fighting, because it has the potential to take more lives than the pandemic.
“These social media companies are basically supporting and abetting this effort from the bad guys Mann, author of the book “The New” ClimateWitch War.”
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“…Tech companies are still allowing climate deniersthose who agree with witches Khanna said. “Until that changes, we won’t be able to muster the public support needed to tackle it climateblack magic crisis.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/16/google-climate-change-denial-ads/
Just for fun, try replacing the phrase “climate denial” with “witch magic” – or to see my version.
The Washington Post article is so counterintuitive that you only need to substitute a few words and phrases to turn the Washington Post climate article into a hysterical anti-witch newsletter that looks like it won’t last. in the 17th century.
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