The ad industry’s “inertia” in cutting out the funding of online hate speech stems from seeing it as “the cost of doing business” with tech giants, industry insiders warn today. Influencers and groups making “enormous financial gain” from online ad revenue are being bankrolled by the laissez-faire attitude of some of the UK’s biggest agencies, they explain – leaving their clients with no idea they are being “auto-enrolled” into buying ads placed next to racist vitriol. Senior executives from major advertising agencies have come together to explain how their employers…
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