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Google promised to defund climate disinformation. It hasn’t
Google sells ads on YouTube videos that peddle climate lies to millions of viewers. Thibault Camus/Associated Press 2022

What do Jane Fonda and Grubhub have in common? Both have had their work inadvertently advertised next to videos full of climate lies and have said they aren’t happy with Google about it. Fonda said in a statement she was “appalled” and found it “abhorrent that YouTube would violate its own policy (while) the earth is burning.”

In October 2021, Google announced it would no longer sell ads on climate denial content, including on YouTube. But a new report from my group, the Climate Action Against Disinformation Coalition, shows Google has failed to systematically enforce its policy.

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