Group aims to strip Fox News of ad revenue over ‘fueling next insurrection’

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Check My Ads targeting news channel website at a time when its prominent hosts are downplaying January 6 insurrection

Check My Ads was founded by two marketing executives who have a deep understanding of how advertising appears on websites. Despite its record of dabbling in misinformation, adverts for companies like Walgreens and Optimum can still be found on Foxnews.com. The adverts are largely placed there, Atkin said, by ad exchanges, which handle the distribution of adverts for advertising agencies.

In the two weeks following the 2020 election, Fox News cast doubt on, or pushed conspiracy theories about the result 774 times,Media Matters for America, a watchdog group. That helped to fuel anger among Donald Trump’s supporters – rage which came to the surface on 6 January, when hundreds of Trump’s adherents stormed the US Capitol.

Ad exchanges vet certain websites before placing adverts on behalf of their clients. If a website meets their criteria – and the criteria often include statements that the website does not endorse or encourage harassment or bullying – then ads are placed on them. “The ad exchanges promise in their legal documentation in these policies that are available online to anyone: ‘We only work with premium publishers and we will never work with websites that publish election disinformation, the promotion of real world violence, all of these other things,” Atkin said.

 

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You can also add an Extension to your Chrome browser that puts up a banner everytime you click on a Murdoch controlled website. By not registering clicks on their websites, it downgrades their reach online & advertising worth.

Do them slowly…..! …. Or better still quickly.! I am not hard to please…!

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