Europe’s leading disinformation websites, including those peddling fake news about coronavirus, continue to profit from advertising placed by Google, a new report has said. The Global Disinformation Index, an agency that rates the trustworthiness of 70,000 news websites, said that European fake news sites earn around $75m of advertising a year, much of it placed by Google. One advertisement, for Amnesty International, was placed by Google on NewsFront, a Spanish disinformation site, next to an article claiming that the US blames “evil Russia” for the coronavirus outbreak. Read More...
Europe’s leading disinformation websites, including those peddling fake news about coronavirus, continue to profit from advertising placed by Google, a new report has said. The Global Disinformation Index, an agency that rates the trustworthiness of 70,000 news websites, said that European fake news sites earn around $75m of advertising a year, much of it placed by Google. One advertisement, for Amnesty International, was placed by Google on NewsFront, a Spanish disinformation site, next to an article claiming that the US blames “evil Russia” for the coronavirus outbreak.
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