New York has reached out to Google about online advertisements for medical face masks showing up in news articles and other web sites at a time when the products are needed by health-care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, a person familiar with the matter said.
Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, last week said it was banning advertisements for medical face masks, but several ads were still embedded in news stories on March 16.
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