Comment on Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency

mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google is running a blatant disinformation campaign to manufacture consent for Genocide. That’s slightly past the point of showing off a new Ninja Airfryer.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google is running a blatant disinformation campaign to manufacture consent for Genocide.

    Occam’s razor died on this day. RIP.

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    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      After Kronenfeld and colleagues complained to Google in January about Israeli ads featuring headlines such as “UNRWA for Human Rights,” they say a company representative told them, without providing a reason, that the ads in question had been removed. Google’s Booth says there was no policy violation.

      By May, per screenshots seen by WIRED, Israel was back to promoting the same content but with tweaked verbiage—“UNRWA Neutrality Compromised,” “Israel Unveils UNRWA Issues,” and “Israel Advocates for Safer, Transparent Humanitarian Practices”—that more clearly previewed what users would get if they clicked.

      The revised ads, which linked to what UNRWA USA views as deeply dishonest distortions, have run across the US and Europe and continue to appear on Google as of this month despite additional UNRWA USA complaints, Kronenfeld says. She alleges these ads violate Google’s policies against “making claims that are demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.” She also believes the ads go against Google’s policy barring the use of someone else’s trademarks “in a confusing, deceptive, or misleading way.”

      Google denied a trademark complaint that UNRWA lodged in May on the basis that it hadn’t obtained a trademark in Jordan, where its ad account is registered, according to the agency.

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      • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So what is clear is the Israel is trying to abuse the ad system to push it’s own agenda.

        What’s not evidenced is that Google is “actively supporting genocide”. Please don’t confuse my hesitation on that statement to somehow supporting the horrors that Israel is meting out.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, because if they were accepting ads from the Russian government, Hamas, Hezbollah, or ISIS, nobody would bat an eye, right? 🙄

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