Google Says No Evidence of Russian Propaganda on Our Ad Platform

Following Facebook's statement to congressional investigators yesterday, Google has now said that unlike the social networking giant, no one used its ad networks to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda during the 2016 US election campaign.

Reports of Russian federation trying to interfere with the U.s. election first came to spotlight in summer terminal twelvemonth months before the election. The research by private cybersecurity firms and government agencies had warned that the land will try to influence the results of the election ahead of Nov's presidential ballot. Since and then the contend has continued as the lawmakers investigate the issue.

In its statement and a blog mail service yesterday, Facebook - after previously denying - admitted to its platform being used by a Russian "troll farm" to dilate divisive social problems. "In reviewing the ads buys, we accept institute approximately $100,000 in advertising spending from June of 2015 to May of 2017 – associated with roughly iii,000 ads – that was connected to about 470 inauthentic accounts and Pages in violation of our policies," the company wrote. "Our assay suggests these accounts and Pages were affiliated with one another and likely operated out of Russia."

Google says "no evidence" of advert-related Russian interference

In its own statement today, Google has suggested that it hasn't constitute any such evidence on its own advertizing platforms. The argument (via Reuters) comes post-obit Facebook's argument and ahead of Twitter'southward which is expected shortly.

"Nosotros're always monitoring for abuse or violations of our policies and we've seen no evidence this type of ad campaign was run on our platforms."

Google has previously also said that it hasn't discovered whatsoever such practices happening on its ain advertisement platforms. Information technology's unclear at the moment why Facebook was the preferred platform over Google, when the latter has also been at the center of fake news with YouTube specifically coming under fire for showing upwards ads on extremist videos and vice versa.

Twitter is next in line every bit information technology is expected to shortly brief lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Commission about whether any Russian federation-linked firms purchased advertising space on the website during the 2016 election entrada catamenia.