: Google doesn’t accept gun ads – but it does profit from them #IndiaNEWS For roughly two decades, Google has boasted that it does not accept gun ads, a reflection of its values and culture. But

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Google doesn’t accept gun ads – but it does profit from them #IndiaNEWS
For roughly two decades, Google has boasted that it does not accept gun ads, a reflection of its values and culture. But a ProPublica analysis shows that before and after mass shootings in May at a New York grocery store and a Texas elementary school, millions of ads from the some of the nation’s largest firearms makers flowed through Google’s ad systems and onto websites and apps – in some cases without the site or app owners’ knowledge and in violation of their policies.Ads from gunmaker Savage Arms, for example, popped up on the site Baby Games, amid brightly colored games for children, and on an article about “How to Handle Teen Drama� on the Parent Influence website. Ads for Glock pistols loaded on a recipe site’s list of the “50 Best Vegetarian Recipes!� as well as on the quiz site Playbuzz, on the online Merriam-Webster dictionary and alongside stories in The Denver Post, according to Adbeat, which aggregates data about web and mobile digital ads.Ads for guns also showed up on Britannica, the media site Heavy, the employer review site Glassdoor, and on MacRumors, US News & World Report, Publishers Clearing House and Ultimate Classic Rock.A ProPublica analysis found that 15 of the largest firearms sellers in the United States – including Daniel Defense,...Read more

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