YouTube ran ads from hundreds of brands on extremist channels
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/19/technology/youtube-ads-extreme-content-investigation/
Ads from over 300 companies and organizations -- including
tech giants, major retailers, newspapers and government
agencies -- ran on YouTube channels promoting white
nationalists, Nazis, pedophilia, conspiracy theories and North
Korean propaganda, a CNN investigation has found. Companies
such as Adidas (ADDDF), Amazon (AMZN), Cisco (CSCO), Facebook
(FB), Hershey (HSY), Hilton (HLT), LinkedIn, Mozilla, Netflix
(NFLX), Nordstrom (JWN) and Under Armour (UA) may have
unknowingly helped finance some of these channels via the
advertisements they paid for on Google-owned YouTube (GOOGL).
US tax dollars may have gone to the channels, too. Ads from
five US government agencies, such as the Department of
Transportation and Centers for Disease Control, appeared on
the channels.
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