Google has never spelled out whether it allows political candidates to put false messages into paid ads, but in practice, its approach appears similar to Facebook’s permissive policy
Facebook's tolerance of misleading campaign ads has the company under nearly daily attack in Washington. Google has largely gotten a pass despite seemingly upholding similar policies."Google has been very adroit at ducking a lot of attention, whether it's the result of purposeful action or not," Sen. Richard Blumenthal told POLITICO on Thursday. "But it bears equal scrutiny."Sens.
Google and its video platform YouTube have pulled in $122 million from ads featuring federal candidates since May 2018, while Facebook's haul for political and issues-based advertising over the same period comes to $857 million. Facebook affirmed last month that it will not fact-check politicians’ ads, a stance that allows Trump’s campaign to continue making baseless accusations that Biden and his family are involved in corruption in Ukraine. In contrast, the rival social networkat all, blocking one avenue for candidates of all types to reach potential voters. Pinterest, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitch also prohibit political ads.
“Google is as bad as Facebook in terms of all the data they use and the techniques, but somehow they had a much more effective kind of lobbying effort to stay away from public criticism.”Schatz suggested the company should be able to put a hard ban on misleading ads without pulling out of political advertising altogether.
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