Alphabet Inc’s Google Company said on this Friday it would retard websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on “dangerous content” that goes viceversa scientific concord during the Corona Virus pandemic.
The world’s biggest search engine updated its policy as the health crisis has continued to rage throughout the United States of America, and digital advertising such platforms like Google and Facebook Inc have faced calls to do more to clamp down on misinformation.
Content not allowed to make cash from ads contains debunked intrigue theories, such as the opinion that the novel Corona Virus was created in a Chinese lab as a bioweapon, that it was fabricated by Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates, or that the virus is a hoax, Google said in a statement.
Google already bars ads with harmful content like “miracle” health cures or which boost the anti-vaccination movement. It also avert ads from running on publisher content that hearten those topics.