Major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda and chemicals company Ecolab have suspended marketing campaigns or removed ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions are appearing alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters
NBCUniversal and Coca-Cola Co. to a children's hospital, have appeared on the profile pages of Twitter accounts that peddle links to the exploitative material, according to a Reuters review of accounts identified in new research about child sex abuse online from cybersecurity group Ghost Data.
She added that Twitter is working closely with its advertising clients and partners to investigate and take steps to prevent the situation from happening again.by tech news site The Verge in late August. The emerging pushback from advertisers that are critical to Twitter's revenue stream is reported here by Reuters for the first time.
Andrea Stroppa, the founder of Ghost Data, said the study was an attempt to assess Twitter's ability to remove the material. He said he personally funded the research after receiving a tip about the topic. A spokesperson for Coca-Cola, which had a promoted tweet appear on an account tracked by the researchers, said it did not condone the material being associated with its brand and said "any breach of these standards is unacceptable and taken very seriously."CODE WORDS
Mega said a link referenced in the Ghost Data report was created in early August and soon after deleted by the user, which it declined to identify. Mega said it permanently closed the user's account two days later.
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