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Meta and Google secretly teamed up to target minors with advertisements, reports the Financial Times. The paywalled story is summarized by The Verge and details complete disregard for the promises ...
Another day, another case of the European Commission going after big tech for targeting minors. The bloc's regulators have probed Google for more information on a secret ad partnership with Meta ...
What Happened: Google and Meta reportedly collaborated on a marketing project aimed at targeting ads promoting Instagram to 13- to 17-year-old YouTube users, Financial Times revealed in a report ...
But first, Google and Meta made a secret deal to target under-18s with ads that promoted Instagram on YouTube, disregarding the search engine’s own rules around ad delivery to minors.
Google worked with Meta to roll out ads that targeted young teens even if it's against the former's rules, according to the Financial Times.Based on the documents seen by the publication, Google ...
A group within Google and Meta worked together to run a secret ad campaign targeting 13 to 17-year-olds on YouTube. The group found a way to skirt Google’s own rules against targeting teenagers.
In August, allegations surfaced that Google and Meta secretly targeted Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, violating Google’s own policies regarding minors.
In October, the EU officials requested information from Google and Meta about a secret ad campaign targeting minors. The information includes internal chats, presentations, emails, and more ...
Google and Meta allegedly ran a secret ad campaign targeting teens, which violated Google’s own rules, the Financial Times reported. The ad campaign allegedly targeted 13- to 17-year olds on ...
A Financial Times report reveals that Meta and Google ran Instagram ads targeting teenagers on YouTube, violating Google’s ad policies. The campaign used the “unknown” category to bypass age ...
This was a big no no as Google has long banned advertising targeting minors. However, these Google employees told Meta to push ads at a group called "unknown," as internal data found it had a ...