Same story. Three headlines:
USA Today:
[h=1]Google pulls its ads from ZeroHedge, warns The Federalist about dangerous and derogatory speech[/h]https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/06/16/google-demonetizes-zerohedge-warns-federalist/3200491001/
Google continues to take a stand against hate speech.
The tech giant gave notices to ZeroHedge and The Federalist to remove content from their sites that violated Google's policy against dangerous and derogatory speech in order to continue generating revenue through Google Ads.
The transgressions were mostly focused on the comment sections of each site.
After being notified of a violation, sites have a few days to rectify the issue and become compliant.
NBC News:
[h=1]Google bans website ZeroHedge from its ad platform over comments on protest articles[/h]https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-bans-two-websites-its-ad-platform-over-protest-articles-n1231176
Google has banned ZeroHedge, a far-right website that often traffics in conspiracy theories, from its advertising platform over policy violations found in the comments section of stories about recent Black Lives Matter protests.
Google also issued a warning on Tuesday to The Federalist over comments on articles related to recent protests.
A Google spokesperson said in an email on Monday that it demonetized the websites after determining they violated its policies on content related to race.
“We have strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on and explicitly prohibit derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race from monetizing," the spokesperson wrote. "When a page or site violates our policies, we take action. In this case, we’ve removed both sites’ ability to monetize with Google.”
Fox News:
[h=1]NBC News under fire for apparently pushing Google to remove conservative sites from ad platform[/h]NBC News is facing intense backlash for apparently influencing Google to punish two conservative news sites over what was deemed offensive coverage of the
George Floyd protests.
[h=4]
Tucker on the incredible popularity of Black Lives Matter[/h]Black Lives Matter may be the single most powerful political party in the United States.
NBC News is facing intense backlash for apparently influencing Google to punish two conservative news sites over what was deemed offensive coverage of the
George Floyd protests.
In a report published Tuesday afternoon, NBC News claimed Google "banned" The Federalist and ZeroHedge from Google Ads for "pushing unsubstantiated claims" about the Black Lives Matter movement. Google later pushed back, claiming that The Federalist "was never demonetized," and adding, "We worked with them to address issues on their site related to the comments section."
"We have strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on and explicitly prohibit derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race from monetizing," a Google spokesperson initially told NBC News. NBC, however, did not link to the "derogatory content" from The Federalist or ZeroHedge.
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Anyway, Google is cracking down on hate speech associated with its ad platform. Fox News took NBC News' article on the issue and spun it as an NBC News conspiracy even though the same story is being reported by dozens outlets.