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Upon hearing the news, The Guardian lost their shit, telling Axios: "While we understand why an organization might wish to align itself with the Guardian's trusted brand, we need to ensure it is being used appropriately and with our permission. We'll be reaching out to Google for more information about this practice."
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Spokespeople for other spoofed outlets such as CNN, USA Today and NPR, said they had no idea their brand was being featured this way.
The campaign has complied with all of Google's rules, although a technical glitch in Google's Ad Library made it appear as though some ads lacked the necessary disclosures Google requires when they ran. (A Google spokesperson confirmed the glitch and said it's investigating what happened.)
That said, according to Google the ads don't violate its rules - however other platforms have taken action against such deception. Facebook, for example, banned advertisers from editing text from Instant Article news links in their ads in 2017, citing its "continuing efforts to stop the spread of misinformation and false news."
How is Facebook the most principled tech company these days?
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100% you'd get banned for running even slightly deceptive ads on google lol
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Nah, Google is super lax with the rules, look at YouTube ads for an example.
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I've not done YouTube ads so I'm not sure but they're pretty anal for search ads in my experience
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Huh, weird there is such a disparity.
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