Presidential campaign ads for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden ran on YouTube channels controlled by Russian state-backed media and white supremacists
after companies’ ads were shown alongside terrorist videos from ISIS.
“This is unacceptable,” said Bill Russo, a Biden spokesperson, in a statement to POLITICO. “We will be demanding answers from Google on how our ads were played alongside this content and how we can be assured that it will never happen again.”After the report was published, Google said a technical error had allowed ads to run against the white supremacist channel, a glitch that has now been fixed.
But before a video titled “Austria: ‘We should send them back,’” a Trump ad asking people to rate the president’s actions, including a link to an online survey, was displayed, according to the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Similarly, a Biden paid-for message ran alongside a Ruptly video called “Italy: Generazione Identitaria hosts second ‘sports day in defense of homeland.'" Both videos have been viewed less than 4,500 times.
Heidi Beirich, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s chief strategy officer, said several U.S and European security agencies, including the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Europol, had flagged the white supremacist movement as potentially fomenting extremism and violence.
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