{"id":23238,"date":"2020-04-02T19:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23238"},"modified":"2020-04-02T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:38:40","slug":"google-to-lift-ban-on-political-ads-referencing-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23238","title":{"rendered":"Google to lift ban on political ads referencing coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is\u00a0lifting the\u00a0ban on coronavirus-related advertising on its platform after facing pushback from Democrats,\u00a0according to A Google memo obtained by The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Google will first start by allowing ads from \u201cgovernment entities, hospitals, medical providers, and NGOS who want to get relevant information out to the public,\u201d Google head of industry Mark Beatty told clients in the memo Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Google will then make changes to allow political organizations to run ads related to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re planning to allow other advertisers, including political organizations, to run ads related to COVID-19. We will have more information to share on this in the next few days,\u201d Beaty wrote in the email to clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is\u00a0lifting the\u00a0ban on coronavirus-related advertising&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23239,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238\/revisions\/23239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}