NEW: Not only is @youtube doing the bare minimum to stop election disinformation coming from OANN, they’re allowing it to be profitable by placing major advertisers on these videos. This is unbelievably irresponsible.
Examples below:
Examples below:
Here’s @Athleta sponsoring one of OANN’s videos that is labeled by @youtube to be election misinformation. 
Here’s @QuickenLoans inadvertently sponsoring a debunked Project Veritas report on OANN because @YouTube placed them there.
Here’s a @ScreenConnect ad showing up on a Dinesh D’Souza video for OANN which has been labeled by @YouTube as election misinformation.
And here’s a @CapitalOne ad placed by @YouTube on another OANN video that has been labeled as election misinformation.
We already knew that @TeamYouTube and CEO @SusanWojcicki do a terribly inadequate to almost nonexistent job dealing misinformation and disinformation, allowing conspiracies to run wild, but *monetizing* it with dollars from advertisers, especially in this environment, is awful.
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