US Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.

Why it matters: It's one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.

Details: Google advertisers and publishers, as well as YouTube creators, will be prohibited from making ad revenue off content that contradicts "well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change," the company's ads team said in a statement.

  • "This includes content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change."
  • Ads and monetization will still be allowed to run alongside other climate-related topics, like public debates on climate policy, impacts of climate change, and new research around the issue.
Google said it's making these changes in response to frustration from advertisers and content creators about their messages appearing alongside climate denialism.

  • "Advertisers simply don’t want their ads to appear next to this content. And publishers and creators don’t want ads promoting these claims to appear on their pages or videos," the company said.
Yes, but: Google often makes changes to its ads policies to reduce misinformation, but this update is notable, given how hard it can be to characterize certain commentary about climate change as denialism or misinformation.

  • The tech giant says that when evaluating content against the new policy, "we’ll look carefully at the context in which claims are made, differentiating between content that states a false claim as fact, versus content that reports on or discusses that claim."
  • The company says it has consulted with experts, like representatives of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports, to create the policy. The report found that there is "unequivocal" evidence showing that human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing global warming."
  • Google says it will use a combination of automated tools and human review to enforce the new policy.
The big picture: Internet companies have been under increased pressure from climate activists to do more to address climate change denial on their platforms.

  • Google on Wednesday unveiled a suite of new tools that give consumers more information so they can choose to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
  • In February, Facebook expanded an online portal meant to counter misinformation about climate change.
Why it matters: Social media platforms have immense reach, and they've come under fire from activists and some lawmakers globally for doing too little to thwart the spread of inaccurate content.

What to watch: Google will begin enforcing the new policy next month.

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No one without a mental problem denies climate change retards. What is disputed is what is really fucking up our eco systems and who is doing it.

Guess its climates changes fault that the largest producers of C02 and other environmental contaminates are from international super tankers hauling funko pops created by Chinese slave labor factories that are powered by highly toxic coal to the rest of the world.

Guess its climate changes fault that fishing companies have over fished our oceans to a point where coral reefs are dying out not because of temperature increases, but because they rely on the now dangerously low populations of vital coral reef fish to grow and prosper,

Youtube will censor these FACTS as "climate denial" even though they don't deny shit, mark my words.
 
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>be me
>be modern day serf
>work long hours to make meager, ever diminishing in purchasing power, wages
>go buy <innocuous product>
>I am now personally responsible for climate disaster
>deforestation, how companies choose to pack their products, coal being burned to fuel factories in China, all my fault
>also there's a white supremacy aspect to it somehow because when the 20 miles of coastlines eventuslly flood niggers are most affected

This is why I don't give two shits about the global warming whinging. I am at the very end of a massive international chain of bullshit whom I have zero control over, yet I am responsible for everything just because I buy a burger. How about you go after the niggers actually calling the shots instead of forcing rolling black outs on me.

But of course, I just get labeled a conspiracy theorist for asking questions. Fucking pricks.
 
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potato fan said:
I wish chinks would hurry up and come up with a decent google/youtube competitor already
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Amen. The Chinese don't give a damn what you say... provided you don't bitch about their governance, the Uighurs, Tibetans, etc. Westerners should be fine.
 
I guarantee you that these rules apply to pro-nuclear energy videos. No peasant, don't do your own research and come to your own conclusion. Let us do that for you.
 
Wasn't Google's headquarters supposed to be underwater by now? John Kerry told e that decades ago.
 
Hot Cup of Joe said:
OK Jewgle and Jewtube, let's play it your way.

Climate change IS happening, you're right. And it's casued by the chinks. What do you mean I'm deplatformed? I agreed with you.
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Climate change is a hoax that the powers that be are using as the excuse for the Great Reset and UN Agenda 21.
 
I have been wondering lately, why every fucking video on Youtube starts off with some bullshit by the SCIENCEMOMS and the narrator is some sheboon that sounds like Joy Reid.
 
"We'll all be dead in 20 years if YOU don't make more concessions to China while giving money to shitskins"
 
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