Ahead of the historic 2024 election, Big Tech is back to its old tricks of censoring the political ads of the opposition of their apparent candidates of choice.
Google and Facebook (now Meta) have targeted candidates or campaigns ahead of elections in seven major instances since 2018. In both America and the United Kingdom, these tech giants have engaged in election interference by shutting down ads for candidates whose political views do not align with the companies’ ideology.
Below are seven occasions when the tech giants went all out on ads censorship, censoring dozens of political ads.
1) In May 2024, Google was caught censoring an ad supporting former President Donald Trump’s campaign multiple times. The pro-Trump ad depicted a fictional phone call between a Biden campaign worker and a voter, highlighting Biden’s disastrous economic and border…
