Technology • 3 years ago

How We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements

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How We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements

Technology • 3 years ago

cross-posted to:
degoogle

How We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements – The Markup

Despite committing to dismantling systemic racism, YouTube blocks advertisers from using many racial justice and cultural identity terms to target videos for ads

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Gettibg busted commenting having only read the headline should be insta -1 karma 😅😅. Thank you for being so nice and explainibg it nonetheless :p

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