{"id":29785,"date":"2020-12-07T14:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29785"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:58:21","slug":"democrats-urge-action-on-google-ad-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29785","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRATS URGE ACTION ON GOOGLE AD POLICY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats on Monday urged Google to improve its ad policies regarding election disinformation and voter suppression, accusing the company of failing even to enforce its own \u201cinadequate\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sens.\u00a0Amy Klobuchar\u00a0(D-Minn.) and\u00a0Mark Warner\u00a0(D-Va.) led the group of eight senators in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dmhszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtgcdjmp_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dmhszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtgcdjmp_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607468025218000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFmYHdEtjW8nEU_N5OHRDCNc8ca7A\">a letter that called<\/a>\u00a0on the tech giant to strengthen the enforcement of its policies regarding election-related disinformation, including rejecting all ads spreading election disinformation and stopping ad services on websites that spread false information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle continues to operate with a narrow and incomprehensive political ads policy that has major loopholes. It is also failing to enforce even this inadequate policy,\u201d the senators wrote. \u201cAs a result, the company is profiting from ads that spread voting and election disinformation and helping disinformation sites profit from their lies. Our democracy deserves better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s ad policy prohibits \u201cmaking demonstrably false claims that could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process,\u201d according to a company update from last year. The update states that it is against the company\u2019s policies for \u201cany advertiser to make a false claim \u2014 whether it\u2019s a claim about the price of a chair or a claim that you can vote by text message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Google\u2019s policy, the senators cited a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kshfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqltvdpsm_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kshfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqltvdpsm_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607468025218000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyPHOA0R9LJf6p-k770xiIaScd2Q\">study published<\/a>\u00a0by The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) in October that found Google services ads on 145 out of 200 websites GDI examines that publish disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats on Monday urged Google&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785","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=29785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29786,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785\/revisions\/29786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}