[HN Gopher] Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'
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Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'
Author : cramsession
Score : 27 points
Date : 2025-10-15 22:36 UTC (25 minutes ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
| cramsession wrote:
| No paywall: https://archive.is/RtwQX
| clanky wrote:
| Disinformation for me, not for thee.
| calmbonsai wrote:
| Wait, wait do you mean to tell me Israel is lying about Gaza?!
| I'm shocked just...shocked. _sigh_
| Spivak wrote:
| I mean if the standard is the current crop of political ads that
| are run every two years then, yeah, this makes sense. We've
| largely accepted that ads are allowed to lie as long as they
| aren't wholesale made up which encompasses all but a measure zero
| set of lies people actually tell. And while I wish for a better
| world I certainly don't have any answers for who or how to weigh
| truth in this manner.
|
| I think a low hanging reform would be requiring ads to have
| attribution of the real life human persons actually responsible
| for and paid for the ad instead of the usual "The Center for Good
| Things Against Bad Things."
| trylfthsk wrote:
| Is anyone surprised when YouTube shows a million "you won't
| believe this one simple trick involving lemon juice to reverse
| diabetes" type ads?
|
| I'd be shocked if now was the time to have standards of any sort.
| paganel wrote:
| > Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973,[19] in
| Lansing, Michigan.[20][21] His mother is Jewish;[22] his maternal
| grandfather later immigrated to Israel,[
|
| and
|
| > Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow
| in the Soviet Union,[8] to Russian Jewish parents,
|
| As simple as that.
| gryphonclaw wrote:
| Antisemitism on HN of all places?
| yupyupyups wrote:
| I hope you're being sarcastic.
| mrrshekelstein wrote:
| OY VEY SHUT THIS COMMENT DOWN
| jeffbee wrote:
| One weird trick to never see video ads again:
| https://www.youtube.com/premium
| slater wrote:
| One weird trick to never see video ads again:
| https://ublockorigin.com/
| jeffbee wrote:
| My way doesn't require giving root access to your life to the
| unreviewed code of a bunch of cranks.
| kbelder wrote:
| I imagine newspapers and magazines would run those ads as well,
| if anybody cared to pay them money to.
| mothballed wrote:
| There is pretty solid peer-reviewed evidence that Israel has
| logged more than the required nutritional content for the entire
| territory in aid as being delivered in Gaza.
|
| There is also evidence the Palestinian MoH has reported
| starvations taking off around July. Peer reviewed research shows
| the MoH hasn't historically lied about their mortality statistics
| enough to discount their reported trends.
|
| I'm not sure how to reconcile these two, but it seems like there
| is indeed food but a logistics breakdown. Possible explanations
| include wasted food, hamas hording, population too far from food
| source, scalping, or other factors that I'm sure people will be
| quick to remind me of.
| roadbuster wrote:
| I used to send inquiries to Google about their policies on
| political ads. This is partly because, in 2024, they said they
| were implementing "pauses" on certain types of political content:
|
| https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/tech/social-media-election-ad...
|
| I discovered two things. First, Google doesn't care about being
| consistent, hypocritical, or, really, anything. Second, Israel
| creates new ad accounts with Google, runs campaigns, then shuts
| them down. Here's one advertiser ID which I saved in my
| bookmarks:
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| https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR122591225072...
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