Google to stop allowing climate change deniers access to advertising platform and Youtube in sweeping crackdown

In the web giants’ efforts to crack down on misinformation across its many platforms a new announcement has been made. According to Google, they’re now preparing to ban advertisements across all Google owned products that contain links or text referencing misinformation about climate change.

“We’ve heard directly from a growing number of our advertising and publisher partners who have expressed concerns about ads that run alongside or promote inaccurate claims about climate change,” Google said. “Advertisers simply don’t want their ads to appear next to this content.” Publishers and creators on YouTube “don’t want ads promoting these claims to appear on their pages or videos,” according to Google.

Per the AP