AT&T and Verizon today joined a growing list of companies in both the US and Europe that are pulling advertising from YouTube and millions of Google-partnered websites. The reasoning stems from the potential for big-name brands’ ads to appear next to videos and other content containing hate speech, including white nationalist, sexist, and homophobic content and videos and sites created by and designed for the purpose of promoting terrorism. Similar to how Facebook has moved to reduce the prominence of fake news, Google is now being pressured through a full-scale boycott to distance itself from hate speech and repair the image of its most lucrative ad platforms.

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