Google will ban advertisements and demonetise videos that deny climate change, starting November. — Bloomberg
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will ban advertisements and stop funding media that contradict scientific consensus on climate change, another attempt from the internet giant to stamp out environmental conspiracies it has fueled for years.
The new prohibition applies to commercials Google places online, as well as the websites and YouTube videos that run Google ads. It includes any content that denies human contributions to global warming or treats "climate change as a hoax or a scam,” Google said in a blog post Thursday.
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