Google is threatening to cut ad revenue from ZeroHedge and The Federalist for violating its policies on race-related content
Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Google is cracking down on two far-right outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
ZeroHedge has been blacklisted from making ad revenue through Google, and Google is threatening to do the same to The Federalist if it doesn't comply. A Google spokesperson said that the sites are facing a crackdown because they failed to moderate their comment sections to remove hateful content that violates Google's policies.
The sites were first flagged by a nonprofit after ZeroHedge published articles that implied Black Lives Matter protesters were funded by the CIA and George Soros, and The Federalist published an article that claimed news outlets were "lying to you" about white supremacists' involvement in riots.
The two unaffiliated sites, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, were banned after Google determined that they violated its policies on content related to race,A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that the two sites violated Google's policies that require that sites moderate comment sections to remove hateful or bigoted comments.
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