Gladwyn d’SouzaJul 10, 2023

#Google’s ad business helps fund #dangerous #disinformation that puts #publichealth and #democracy at #risk around the #world, earns money from millions of #gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a #sanctioned Russian ad tech company to #harvest #data on potentially millions of people, including possibly those in #Ukraine, putting their #security and #privacy at risk.

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

#SurveillanceCapitalism
#InformedConsent #HumanRights #PrivacyCapitalized #HateCapitalized #EthnicClensing #socialmedia

Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire

Google’s ad business hides nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.

ProPublica