MAJOR GLOBAL AD AGENCY PULLS UK CLIENTS FROM GOOGLE WEBSITES, INCLUDING YOUTUBE OVER CONCERNS ABOUT EXTREMIST CONTENT:

A top global advertising agency has withdrawn all of its 240 UK clients from Google websites - including YouTube - due to concerns about ads being displayed next to extremist content, media sources reported on 20 March, 2017. According to the report, Havas spends around £175 million a year in the UK on digital advertising, of which Google gets around £35 million. "We have a duty of care to our clients in the UK marketplace,” said Paul Frampton, chief executive of Havas UK. "Our position will remain until we are confident in the YouTube platform and Google Display Network’s ability to deliver the standards we and our clients expect.” Last week, a top Google executive told British lawmakers that an anti-Semitic YouTube video titled "Jews admit organizing White Genocide” did not constitute hate speech. While the video - narrated by ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke - was "deeply offensive and shocking,” it did not violate YouTube rules against hate speech and would remain on the site, Google Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs Peter Barron said at a House of Commons Home Affairs Committee hearing. The hearing marked the start of a parliamentary inquiry into online hate. (Algemeiner) Pray that Google websites and social media outlets that refuse to cease posting material that is clearly anti-Semitic and full anti-Israel bias will incur increasing sharp penalties for their slander and incitement.