Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'

I'm not convinced that such a direct message does anything. Wouldn't be more effective to run Gaza restaurant ads, implying that there's food everything is fine but even Gazan don't help each other, so why you should care?

I'm saying this because my observation with all that propaganda going on in social media since many years is that they are not this direct, instead they imply stuff and work to create certain framing.

Hamas people do not look starved. Other videos. over the last several days, do not show people looking starved Gaza people said to be returning to Gaza do not looked starved?

Have been several media articles about supposedly starved children and later its found they have some other condition

Also saw an article about how Hamas used the arm band method... the article claimed was a non standard method and had been shown to be not as reliable as other starvation methods. Maybe there is pockets of stavevation?

Is anyone surprised when YouTube shows a million "you won't believe this one simple trick involving lemon juice to reverse diabetes" type ads?

I'd be shocked if now was the time to have standards of any sort.

Flagged, of course. I guess the WaPo is an unreliable source, right?

I used to send inquiries to Google about their policies on political ads. This is partly because, in 2024, they said they were implementing "pauses" on certain types of political content:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/tech/social-media-election-ad...

I discovered two things. First, Google doesn't care about being consistent, hypocritical, or, really, anything. Second, Israel creates new ad accounts with Google, runs campaigns, then shuts them down. Here's one advertiser ID which I saved in my bookmarks:

https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR122591225072...

I imagine newspapers and magazines would run those ads as well, if anybody cared to pay them money to.

I mean if the standard is the current crop of political ads that are run every two years then, yeah, this makes sense. We've largely accepted that ads are allowed to lie as long as they aren't wholesale made up which encompasses all but a measure zero set of lies people actually tell. And while I wish for a better world I certainly don't have any answers for who or how to weigh truth in this manner.

I think a low hanging reform would be requiring ads to have attribution of the real life human persons actually responsible for and paid for the ad instead of the usual "The Center for Good Things Against Bad Things." Expose that it really all terminates at a group of rich assholes small enough to fit on one plane ride to Epstein's island.

It's sad that Big Tech is guilty of censorship so often that it's now considered newsworthy when they don't censor things.

No paywall: https://archive.is/RtwQX

Disinformation for me, not for thee.

Wait, wait do you mean to tell me Israel is lying about Gaza?! I'm shocked just...shocked. sigh

One weird trick to never see video ads again: https://www.youtube.com/premium

> Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973,[19] in Lansing, Michigan.[20][21] His mother is Jewish;[22] his maternal grandfather later immigrated to Israel,[

and

> Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union,[8] to Russian Jewish parents,

As simple as that.