Bellingcat’s Pooja Chaudhuri reveals how articles based on disinformation and hateful content on Indian websites are continuing to generate profit through Google’s Adsense programme and other ad tech platforms despite being debunked by fact-checkers. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/29/google-ads-funding-disinformation-india/?utm_source=mastodon![How Google Ads Are Funding Disinformation Campaigns in India](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3167445)
How Google Ads Are Funding Disinformation Campaigns in India
A Bellingcat investigation found 46 websites running ads by Google alongside debunked statements inciting hate in India.Pooja Chaudhuri (bellingcat)
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in reply to Bellingcat • • •https://support.google.com/publisherpolicies/answer/10522641?hl=en&ref_topic=10436798&sjid=7892147177562054783-NA
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in reply to Bellingcat • • •Learn more about how the adverts are working in favour of disinformation by reading the full investigation here:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/29/google-ads-funding-disinformation-india/?utm_source=mastodon
How Google Ads Are Funding Disinformation Campaigns in India
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in reply to Bellingcat • • •How Four Hindu Nationalist Websites Make Their Money - bellingcat
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in reply to Bellingcat • • •same thing happened in Italy between 2010-2013 - some kid kept on creating blatantly fake hateful content to make money off advertisement - and in US in 2016 (this time it was a bunch of kids from a Macedonian village).
Hate sells.
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Was Bellingcat using a private/incognito browser window and a VPN with an Indian address to see these pages with the kinds of ads an Indian would see? If not, these ads are presumably targeting the Bellingcat investigator, who presumably lives somewhere like the US. It seems to me that's an important distinction, especially when talking about how these rumours affect Indians.
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