Washington Post Campaigns Against Advertising on Sites It Doesn’t Like

The Washington Post is not primarily in the business of informing the public. It is a political agent, conspicuously devoted to advancing a leftist agenda. That agenda entails silencing conservative speech on line, which is why WaPo has launched a jihad against ads appearing on websites it disagrees with.

WaPo scoured the Internet and found examples of mainstream ads together with content it regards as beyond the pale, including a Red Cross ad that came up on a page comparing fascistic anti–Second Amendment militant David Hogg’s armband with those worn by Nazis.

Such juxtapositions, documented by a Washington Post review of advertising on hundreds of websites, are more than simply jarring. They are products of online advertising systems that regularly put mainstream ads alongside content from the political fringes — and dollars in the pockets of those producing polarizing and politically charged headlines.

Obviously, this must be stopped. No worries; WaPo will save society from incorrect thoughts. That’s what it is there for.

The ads in question are automated, targeted mainly based on browsing history. But that’s no excuse for letting ads show up on sites WaPo doesn’t like.

Google and other online advertising companies vowed to address such issues last year after The Post and other news organizations discovered mainstream advertisements near hateful, racist and violent content. Though online ad networks have made strides in these areas, they have struggled to handle other categories of content that are less extreme but still upsetting to some advertisers, including the sharply political, conspiratorial and sometimes misleading content The Post recently reviewed.

“Less extreme” apparently means a site doesn’t even rise to a leftist’s definition of “hateful” or “racist.” But WaPo still wants its advertising killed if it is ideologically noncompliant.

Google, whose software and online networks had a role in placing many of the ads reviewed by the Post, declined to comment on individual sites that carry its ads or on the particular advertisers that use its network or software to place ads. But several pages containing inflammatory headlines, images and articles no longer showed Google-placed ads after The Post contacted the company and asked it to review them for possible policy violations.

Nice work, WaPo social justice warriors! The Internet is now a little less free thanks to your valiant efforts.

That’s how decentralized soft tyranny works.

Speaking of sharply political and sometimes misleading content, if you subscribe to WaPo, you get an email blast promoting their featured stories of the day. The top story today:

OUTCRY: AS GOP PRESSES ON WITH KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION

Other featured articles include:

REPUBLICANS’ TRUMP-INSPIRED STRATEGY: ATTACK KAVANAUGH’S ACCUSERS

Those are “news” articles. Editorials include this gem:

Ford was verbally mugged: President Trump’s twisted account of her testimony is despicable

WaPo’s “First Reads” email blast is like this or worse every single day, consisting mainly (when not entirely) of left-wing bomb-throwing on behalf of the Democrat Party. To call its propagandistic headlines “polarizing and politically charged” would be putting it mildly.

Maybe the paper should lobby Google to choke off its advertising.

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