The Daily Wire, a conservative media outlet founded by Ben Shapiro, paid Google to advertise articles that questioned the reality of the climate crisis.
Despite Google's new policy prohibiting ads that promote climate crisis denial, Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, found that Google sold ads for search phrases such as "climate change is a hoax" and "why is climate change fake.
" The Daily Wire's articles were some of the top results that appeared after these phrases were searched.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a research group in the US and UK, found that conservative media outlet, The Daily Wire, paid Google to advertise articles that denied the reality of climate change.
Despite Google's new policy prohibiting ads that promote climate change denial, The Daily Wire's search terms, including "climate change is a hoax," consistently appeared as first results in searches over the past year.
Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, publicly stated in October 2021 that their search engine would provide authoritative information about the reality of the climate crisis from sources like the United Nations.
According to Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, "Google's hypocrisy knows no bounds."