Google took five canicule to review several ads with mysterial advice generally voting by mail afore opting to corroborate them, The Washington Column reported. The ads were created by Protect My Vote-- a group the Column refers to as "shadowy"-- and appeared to yearing persons in several US states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, and Texas, showing up in return to searches for "mail-in voting." One of the ads reads "think mail-in voting and absentee voting are the same. Think again! There are unique safeguards for each," a mysterial and inaccurate claim.
Google ultimately macerated to rescind the ads. Backer Charlotte Artisan told the Post "We have aught tolerance for ads that employ aborigine suppression theory or unstrengthen peace in elections. Back we gathering those ads, we take them down." Google did not instantaneously respond to a appeal for elucidation from The Verge on Saturday.
According to the Post, Protect My Vote is associated with conservative custody organization FreedomWorks, which has trustable causes related to President Trump's reelection. The president has again questioned the legitimacy of voting by mail over the practiced several weeks, without citing any express vestige of unlawful activity.
Google, Twitter, and Facebook all have tried, with capricious levels of success, to bind inhabitancy of misinformation in political ads onward of the 2020 presidential elections. Beforehand this month, Facebook said it would start banning US offset publishers with connections to political groups from emergence in its Offset tab, and Google announced that it would bar political advertisers masquerading as bounded offset outlets from placing ads as of September. Warble banned all political advertising beforehand this year.
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