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  • How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation | ProPublica

    October 31, 2022

    Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly […]

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  • The Defunders | Intelligencer, New York Magazine

    September 6, 2022

    “We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in February with two colleagues from the group Check My Ads and 20-odd […]

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  • Can a national nonprofit news “utility” — funded by taxing Big Tech — help save local news? | Nieman Journalism Lab

    July 18, 2022

    One of the most meaningful changes in our economy in the past decade has been the astronomical growth in online advertising — and the corresponding destruction of newspaper advertising. In […]

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  • Facebook Promised to Remove “Sensitive” Ads. Here’s What It Left Behind | The Markup

    May 12, 2022

    Late last year, after facing years of criticism for its practices, Facebook announced a change to its multibillion-dollar advertising system: Companies buying ads would no longer be able to target […]

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  • Google paying more than 300 EU publishers for news, more to come | Reuters

    May 12, 2022

    BRUSSELS, May 11 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries for their news and […]

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  • New forms of advertising raise questions about journalism integrity | The Conversation

    February 4, 2022

    Mainstream news media outlets have, in recent years, begun to create advertisements that look like news articles on their websites and on social media. My research raises questions about whether […]

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  • Scientists target PR and ad firms they accuse of spreading disinformation | Reuters

    January 20, 2022

    WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) – More than 450 scientists on Wednesday called on the executives of major advertising and public relations firms to drop their fossil fuel clients and stop […]

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  • Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes | The Conversation

    January 13, 2022

    Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your social media feed? Far from coincidence, these instances of eerily […]

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  • How Steve Bannon Has Exploited Google Ads to Monetize Extremism | ProPublica

    December 1, 2021

    Almost a year ago, Google took a major step to ensure that its ubiquitous online ad network didn’t put money in the pocket of Steve Bannon, the indicted former adviser […]

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  • Biden Administration Announces Ad Campaign to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy | The New York Times

    April 2, 2021

    WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday morning announced an ambitious advertising campaign intended to encourage as many Americans as possible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The campaign, with […]

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