Google’s platform YouTube could unwittingly have channelled money to terrorist supporters via adverts JOSH EDELSON/GETTY IMAGESGoogle is not doing enough to prevent advertisers from inadvertently funding extremists, the internet company has admitted. An investigation by The Times last month revealed that dozens of brands were promoted next to jihadist videos on its YouTube platform. Ronan Harris, managing director of Google UK, said that it was working closely with bodies whose advertisements had been found on YouTube content posted by supporters of Islamic State and the pro-Nazi network Combat 18. Since YouTube advertisements generate as much as $7.60 for their posters every 1,000 views, the brands were likely to have unwittingly channelled money to terrorist supporters. So-called programmatic advertising automatically serves adverts to potential customers wherever they browse on the web.

Source: The Times March 08, 2017 00:03 UTC