Switching back to hard data: Nielsen identified more than 1,200 website URLs containing anti-Asian hate speech and found more than 250 ad campaigns that ran on them, with a spend of $153 million in the first quarter of this year alone. The list includes a dozen Fortune 500 companies who were effectively funding hate speech but Nielsen pulls its punch by not naming them.
This IAS study relied on consumer surveys rather than behaviors, so it’s not as reliable as a real test. But you’ll still probably like the answers: 77% of Twitter users said they’re comfortable sharing data with Twitter for a better ad experience; 59% said they’re remember an in-feed ad if it was relevant to surrounding content; and 54% said they’re comfortable engaging with ads that appear next to “personal content”, whatever that means.
By using data categorization, discovery & redaction, and deduplication techniques, this addresses one of the most difficult tasks in responding to Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR).
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.