Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted under-18s with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times. Reportedly via a loophole in Google’s ...

Targeted advertisements can be incredibly powerful, especially when used on minors, which is why there are usually more rules for ads targeteing younger people. Google and Meta, two of the world's ...

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s own rules for how minors are treated online.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Financial Times has reported that Google and Meta have worked out a secret agreement to circumvent policies on the online treatment of minors and target Instagram ads to teenagers who watch ...

Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year-olds with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times, breaking the search giant’s own ...