DIRTY MONEY AND GOOGLE

Google’s stupidity in accepting extremist content on YouTube and placing ads alongside it has resulted in more than 250 concerned advertisers withdrawing their support, including Audi, the BBC, BT, Coca-Cola, the Co-op, Dominos, HSBC, Lloyds, Marks and Spencer, McDonalds, Mercedes Benz, L’Oreal, O2, RBS and Waitrose.

A commission of £6.15 for every 1,000 views is paid by Google from the advertising revenue to the suppliers of the content. This means that the firms advertising have been unintentionally funding neo-Nazi organisations and terrorist groups. According to marketing experts these groups have made £250,000 from Google’s advertisers.

The Solicitor General has warned that Google could face prosecution under the Terrorism Act.

Mark Brittin, Google’s impressive European boss told delegates at a recent advertising conference that the money his employer makes from the arrangement with dangerous extremists is “pennies, not pounds” so that’s all right then.

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