Google expanded its censorship of Covid, election, and climate-related ads, demonetizing “false claims”

Google has published its 2021 Ads Safety Report, revealing that in order to “prevent malicious use” of the ads platform, it last year removed more than 3.4 billion ads, restricted more than 5.7 billion, and suspended in excess of 5.6 million advertiser accounts.

Google claims it is “user safety” that is their top priority when deciding about ads – the very core of the trillion-dollar empire – and monetized content.

Some new elements of the policy around ads introduced in 2021 include a multi-strikes system for what Google decides are policy violations, and at the same time, more than 30 policies for advertisers and publishers were either added, or updated last year.