Fri Oct 8, 2021 – 2:51 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Google has released strict new guidelines regarding content on climate change on its platforms, promising to ban advertisements and demonetize YouTube videos that challenge “well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.”
In a statement released Thursday, Google published its new guidelines, “Updating our ads and monetization policies on climate change,” seeing fit to disincentivize all content that characterizes claims of man-made climate change as “a hoax or a scam,” in the process enforcing some of the most restrictive measures against dissenting from mainstream thought on climate change.
As of next month, any claims which deny that “long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change,” will be subject to removal or demonetization.
Google is currently the world’s largest digital ad company, bringing in a reported $147 billion of revenue from the sale and brokering of advertising space alone.
The firm justified its decision by citing the alleged concerns “in recent years” of advertising and publishing partners “who have expressed concerns about ads that run alongside or promote inaccurate claims
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