{"id":12813,"date":"2019-10-02T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/us\/?p=12813"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:06:18","slug":"discrimination-and-ad-targeting-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/us\/discrimination-and-ad-targeting-on-social-media","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination and ad targeting on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"
In August, a group of YouTubers said they were suing YouTube for not allowing advertising against videos that were LGBTQ+ themed. The group claims that YouTube removed advertising from videos that have trigger words (such as \u2018gay\u2019 or lesbian\u2019), something that YouTube broadly denies. An article by the<\/span> BBC<\/span><\/a>, however, says that Google representatives said (in a phone call heard by the BBC) that videos discussing gay sexuality broke its advertising rules, and YouTube accepts that its technology doesn\u2019t always make the right decisions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n