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Google pulls Hezbollah YouTube channel after The Register told them about drone ads
[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] Until just minutes before we hit publish on this story, Google was using a YouTube channel run by a fan of Hezbollah to promote potentially lethal drones.Despite a backlash from advertisers, Amazon, Adobe and Google were among the tech titans advertising on the now-shuttered "Party of Allah"* YouTube channel ‐ which we imagine was not the group's "official" YouTube, though there was no way to verify this. The Trichordist blog, which has been recording the use of brands on YouTube for five years, found Google's Home (its version of Amazon Alexa) being promoted. We found ads for Adobe Cloud Services and Amazon's Alexa developer initiative. But the most intriguing was for a drone. The palm-sized Kudrone may not pack much of a punch ‐ but it's remarkable that Google is promoting it at all, given concerns that terror groups are increasingly taking advantage of low-cost consumer drones. Posted by: Fred 2017-03-25 |
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