Google Banning Ads With "Inaccurate" Content On Climate Change
Google Banning Ads With "Inaccurate" Content On Climate Change
BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, OCT 08, 2021 - 02:43 PM Authored by Katabella Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
Google is banning advertisements
featuring content that contradict what it called “inaccurate” content on climate change, and will no longer allow ad
revenue to be made from them, the company announced in a blog post on Oct. 7.
The tech giant said the new policy will go into effect in
November and will help “strengthen
the integrity” of Google’s advertising ecosystem, and also align with
their past work to promote sustainability and “confront climate change.”
“In recent years, we’ve heard directly from a growing number of
our advertising and publisher partners who have expressed concerns about ads
that run alongside or promote inaccurate claims about climate change,” the
company said in Thursday’s blog post announcing the updates.
“Advertisers simply don’t want their ads to appear next to this
content. And publishers and creators don’t want ads promoting these claims to
appear on their pages or videos.”
Google said that those concerns are what led them to create the
new monetization policy, which applies to commercials Google places
online, as well as the websites and YouTube videos that run Google ads.
The updated policy prohibits advertising for and
monetization of content that contradicts what Google calls the
“well-established scientific consensus” on the existence and causes of climate
change.
It
includes any content that denies human contributions to global warming or treats “climate change
as a hoax or a scam,” such as “denying that long-term trends show the
global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or
human activity contribute to climate change,” Google
said.
Going forward, Google will be analyzing content and considering
whether it presents accurate or false claims about climate change, or whether
it is simply discussing or reporting such a claim.
“We will also continue to allow ads and monetization on other
climate-related topics, including public debates on climate policy, the varying
impacts of climate change, new research and more,” the company said.
Google added that it consulted with “authoritative sources”
on climate science—including those who have
contributed to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports—when creating the new policy.
The new policy will be enforced through employees reading or
watching the content as well as through “automated tools,” although the company
did not state specifically what these are.
Google’s new policy comes as President Joe Biden’s
administration aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Google
had previously in late 2019 announced its
support for the Paris Agreement and touted multiple ways it was taking to
support renewable energy markets and ensuring sustainability in its products.
This week, the big tech giant rolled out several products aimed
at increasing climate awareness, including a routing model in Google Maps that
shows users the most eco-friendly route to their destination.
Last month, Facebook announced several new measures to
expand community engagement with “climate topics” and said it was seeking
to make sure people “have access to reliable information while reducing
misinformation.” It added that it was going to invest
$1 million in a new climate grant program to fact check any climate
content it deems “misinformation.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/google-banning-ads-inaccurate-content-climate-change
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