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December 2, 2019 03:33 pm GMT

Google won't say why it took down more than 300 Trump ads

Google won't say why it took down more than 300 Trump ads

More than 300 ads made by Donald Trump's campaign have been removed from Google and YouTube. Why? The platforms won't say.  

The discovery was made by 60 Minutes in the course of reporting a story about YouTube's struggle to fight hate speech. Ironically, though, while the ads were listed in YouTube's "Transparency Report," there was no actual transparency as to why the videos were removed.

Unsurprisingly, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki played coy when asked about the ads by 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl.

Stahl says it pretty succinctly in the above clip: "There's no transparency in the transparency report." Read more...

More about Youtube, Donald Trump, Political Ads, Transparency, and Transparency Rule

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