Many advertisers have tried for years to avoid sharing space with content about polarising politics, pandemics, hate speech or misinformation, for fear of damaging customer perception and risking public censure. That ads appeared anyway on YouTube ahead of falsehoods about Haitian migrants underscores the difficulty advertisers face in maintaining brand safety in an especially volatile US election year. Read full story
On YouTube, major brands’ ads appear alongside racist falsehoods about Haitian immigrants
