Still With This? U.K. Politicians Flee YouTube as Election Ads Turn Up on Extremist Video
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Britons watching pro-jihadist Youtube videos last week may have received pre-roll campaign messaging from none other than Theresa May, London’s Sunday Times reported, leading Britain’s three largest political parties to pull all YouTube advertising before tomorrow’s general election.
The Times reported that messaging for the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democratic parties was running alongside extremist content, the latest example of YouTube’s struggle to keep advertisements off objectionable video this year:
Election adverts for Labour and the Lib Dems also ran on a YouTube channel created by a supporter of Islamic State. Tim Farron, the Liberal Democratic leader, was pictured above the supporter’s profile picture, an image of the terror group’s black flag.
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