As consumers scroll through their short-form video platform of choice, they’ve likely encountered cheaply made advertisements promoting deals too good to be true, such as heavily discounted ...

Reports of sexually explicit ads appearing on YouTube have gone up significantly, with users getting increasingly concerned about the platform’s content moderation efforts. A new incident shared on ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been crucial in helping Google enforce policies and prevent bad actors and harmful content from reaching users. Its latest models contributed to detecting violations ...

Google identified 1.7 billion ads last year that violated its policies by deceiving users, containing malware or forcibly redirecting users to app stores. That amount is double the number it flagged ...

Every year, there’s one article more people ask me about than any other. Which is weird, because it has next to nothing to do with hockey. That would be this one, of course — the annual “bad ads” ...

Tech giant Google blocked or removed 483.7 million policy-violating advertisements and suspended 1.7 million advertiser accounts in India in 2025 with the help of its AI platform Gemini. Globally, ...

As if the threat from domination by Google and Facebook and the rise of ad blockers isn’t enough, now we’re being told that bad ads are going to kill digital advertising. A startup called Ad Lightning ...