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@nandoodles
Apr 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Yesterday, we wrote about the adtech companies that are violating U.S. sanctions to funnel cash to Russian disinformation operatives.

But there are quite a few other tech platforms involved too.
SouthFront uses @PayPal for donations. They collect the cash under the very innocuous "Payment for information provision and analysis services."

This is all hella illegal.
SouthFront is also raising funds through @spring4creators. This means Spring is also violating U.S. sanctions to work with a Russian disinformation operation.
It brings me no pleasure to say that @gumroad is also in violation of U.S. sanctions against Russia.
Sometime in the last few days, @Patreon suspended SouthFront's account. Bravo.
Finally, SouthFront is hosted online by @Hetzner_Online, a web hosting provider based in Germany. This is not a great look for them!

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Aug 17, 2023
OH MY GOD. YouTube has been:

a.) tracking kids (illegal)
b.) serving them ads for credit cards, explosions, sniper rifles and even *car accidents.*

This is actually so illegal and so messed up I think it could actually bring Congress together lmfao

nytimes.com/2023/08/17/tec…
Here's the scoop: Google has been pushing a new shiny AI product called Performance Max on its clients.

PMax runs ads & auto-optimizes for you. But it doesn't let you control your ads at all — not even to *exclude* your ads from key categories, like YouTube for Kids.
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On the other hand, PMax doesn't filter out ads for YouTube for Kids either.

So in between videos titled "Can you name these vegetables?" kids have been watching ads featuring car accidents, violent explosions and people drowning.

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Jul 20, 2023
In Jan. 2023, The Donald started running ads through an ad network called "Publir."

Turns out Publir's co-founder is (was?) the co-owner and CTO of RealClearPolitics. He was running both companies at the same time —  and maybe still is.

Big story here:
checkmyads.org/branded/is-rea…
I first came across Publir when @AlKapDC flagged that "The Donald" (banned from Reddit for helping J6 insurrection) was running ads.

Who the hell would do that? I was not expecting the answer to be a C-suite executive at RealClearPolitics.
That executive is Anand Ramanujan.

At first, I thought Publir might be his own independent business or side hustle. His LinkedIn says he launched the company in 2021 after leaving RealClear in 2020.

But as I dug in, I realized that this is not the case at all. Image
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Jun 27, 2023
HOLY SHIT. @WSJ is reporting that ~80% of the ads @YouTube serves across the web have violated their own terms of service — and are therefore subject to refunds.

This is...a devastatingly huge deal. @GoogleAds is about to be out billions of $$.

wsj.com/articles/googl…
Google has never been weaker than it is RIGHT now. Their search ads business - their main source of $$ - has been tanking since ChatGPT. They're facing 2 antitrust lawsuits.

Now, turns out they've been caught in a multi-billion dollar scam?? Oh my god.
Let me explain the scam itself:

Advertisers pay YouTube good money to run their ads on before or after a YouTube video, on the YouTube platform.

But sometimes, YouTube runs these ads videos embedded on 3rd party websites, like you see here:
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May 9, 2023
Oh my god. Elon has successfully conned Tucker Carlson.
The reality of Twitter is:

-negative user growth
-glitchy UX
-no advertisers
-no streaming distribution outside Twitter.com

How did Elon manage to spin all this into a growth opportunity for Tucker?
Thanks to Fox Corp’s distribution power, Tucker used to be streamed into doctor’s offices, military bases, gyms, etc.

This latent audience isn’t going to be making Twitter accounts just to watch him.

Without his ubiquity, Tucker is… nothing.
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Jan 31, 2023
TheDonald is WAY too toxic to be running ads. So how is happening?

An adtech middleman called Publir (@publirllc) —  which has connected them to every major ad exchange by hiding TheDonald under various fake names & accounts.

Let's talk about Publir and ad fraud.
On Dec 9, 2022, @Publir added TheDonald (patriots(.)win) to its inventory.

Instead of listing a corp/LLC (as is protocol) under "Owner", they wrote "Greg." (?) Two weeks later, they changed it to Scored.co.

Who? What? That's just the beginning. Screenshot: https://well-known.dev/resources/ads_txt/ad-syst
"Greg" aka Scored.co runs more than just TheDonald. They run a network of toxic forums incl.:

•GreatAwakening(.)win (QAnon)
•Conspiracies(.)win (General)
•KotakuInAction2(.)win (Gamergate)

It looks like Publir onboarded the whole ring last month, all at once.
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Jan 3, 2023
Hey @Lowes! Did you know your ads are sponsoring Seb Gorka, a literal Nazi?

Please check your audio ads!
How did the Nazi score a Lowe’s sponsorship? His platform @tunein has audio ad relationships with:

•@adswizz
•@global (formerly Dax)
•@Targetspot
•@TritonDigital
•@xandr
•@adtonoscom

It could have come from any one of them.
Not surprisingly, Seb Gorka does not earn ad revenues under his own name!

He monetizes through an ad account owned by Salem Media Network — which coincidentally also monetizes Charlie Kirk, another J6 insurrectionist.

See, look at this @Targetspot account.
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