US technology giant Google, in a statement, announced that it has decided to stop ads on content that exploits the Russia-Ukraine war or gives misleading information about the war.
The war between Russia and Ukraine, which started almost a month ago, on the one hand caused sad scenes in the territory of Ukraine, where the war took place, on the other hand. to influence the whole world in many ways. continues.
At this point, one of the most striking situations, which we have not encountered in the past on this scale and which has been subject to criticism from time to time, was the sanction decisions against Russia, which came from global industry giants and even from universities and the sports world. One of these companies is Google. Google has taken critical steps in this regard since the first days of the war; from their platforms Blocking of Russian media made such decisions.
Google stops ads on misleading content about the Russia-Ukraine war
Google, with a statement made today, giving misleading information about the Russia-Ukraine war; Expressions such as Ukraine committing genocide or attacking its own territory block ads on content that ‘blames the victim’ reported. In addition to videos broadcast on YouTube, websites and applications that contain such content will also be banned from advertising. Thus, sources legitimizing the Russian invasion or blaming Ukraine, will not be able to generate revenue from advertising.
At the same time, Google trying to generate income with a kind of ‘exploitation’ on sensitive issues It has a similar advertising ban policy on content and applies it to the Russia-Ukraine war. In other words, users who produce such content cannot earn advertising revenue from such content.
Russia also counter-attack: Google News blocked in the country
In addition to these steps taken on the Google front, Russia also attacked Google, as it did against many companies that imposed sanctions. Google News was blocked for allowing fake news about the ongoing war. Statement on the subject “The American online news source in question about the course of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine not real and provided access to a large number of publications and materials containing important publicly available information. statements were included.
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