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Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine-gaza
34•cramsession•2h ago

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cramsession•2h ago
No paywall: https://archive.is/RtwQX
clanky•2h ago
Disinformation for me, not for thee.
calmbonsai•2h ago
Wait, wait do you mean to tell me Israel is lying about Gaza?! I'm shocked just...shocked. sigh
Spivak•2h ago
I mean if the standard is the current crop of political ads that are run every two years then, yeah, this makes sense. We've largely accepted that ads are allowed to lie as long as they aren't wholesale made up which encompasses all but a measure zero set of lies people actually tell. And while I wish for a better world I certainly don't have any answers for who or how to weigh truth in this manner.

I think a low hanging reform would be requiring ads to have attribution of the real life human persons actually responsible for and paid for the ad instead of the usual "The Center for Good Things Against Bad Things." Expose that it really all terminates at a group of rich assholes small enough to fit on one plane ride to Epstein's island.

trylfthsk•2h ago
Is anyone surprised when YouTube shows a million "you won't believe this one simple trick involving lemon juice to reverse diabetes" type ads?

I'd be shocked if now was the time to have standards of any sort.

paganel•2h ago
> Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973,[19] in Lansing, Michigan.[20][21] His mother is Jewish;[22] his maternal grandfather later immigrated to Israel,[

and

> Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union,[8] to Russian Jewish parents,

As simple as that.

gruez•1h ago
It really isn't, because there are plenty of jews (or people with jewish background) that oppose israel's actions, but nobody points that out as some sort of massive contradiction. Therefore this sort of logic only works one way: if someone supports israel and are jewish it's obviously because their background, but if it's the reverse you get a meh.
cramsession•1h ago
Do you know of any Jews in the tech industry that don’t support Israel? I haven’t seen that (although would love to!).
catlover76•1h ago
> It really isn't, because there are plenty of jews (or people with jewish background) that oppose israel's actions, but nobody points that out as some sort of massive contradiction.

Pro-Israel voices try to cite that as a massive contradiction, label such Jews as "self-hating", etc.

(I am not endorsing the initial comment in this thread)

jeffbee•2h ago
One weird trick to never see video ads again: https://www.youtube.com/premium
slater•2h ago
One weird trick to never see video ads again: https://ublockorigin.com/
jeffbee•2h ago
My way doesn't require giving root access to your life to the unreviewed code of a bunch of cranks.
slater•1h ago
Odd, uBlock Origin doesn't need that, either.
pcdoodle•1h ago
Don't you dare slander the good name of gorhill.
tmchu•59m ago
yeah, it just give money to the other bunch of cranks who written unreviewed code to spy on you and everyone else, including the people who are being genocided.
kbelder•2h ago
I imagine newspapers and magazines would run those ads as well, if anybody cared to pay them money to.
mothballed•2h ago
There is pretty solid peer-reviewed evidence that Israel has logged more than the required nutritional content for the entire territory in aid as being delivered in Gaza.

There is also evidence the Palestinian MoH has reported starvations taking off around July. Peer reviewed research shows the MoH hasn't historically lied about their mortality statistics enough to discount their reported trends.

I'm not sure how to reconcile these two, but it seems like there is indeed food but a logistics breakdown. Possible explanations include wasted food, hamas hording, population too far from food source, scalping, or other factors that I'm sure people will be quick to remind me of.

adgjlsfhk1•1h ago
you're missing the simplest answer. the IDF logged aid that they never sent.
xenospn•1h ago
IDF doesn't distribute aid. Other agencies are responsible for that.
gryphonclaw•1h ago
Logistics breakdown is a good way to put it. There is enough food entering to prevent starvation, but a combination of 1. Gaza being a war zone 2. Looting by Hamas and Tribe-related gangs 3. Insufficient distribution stations and 4. Pressure by Bibi's far-right coalition partners to limit food entry has combined to cause some level of starvation. From what I've seen so far, its not homogeneously distributed across the strip, but rather concentrated in areas that are isolated and cut off from regular supply routes, like Gaza City was in the North.
clanky•1h ago
Some of it could also have been hoarded by the factions of Israel-aligned militias that have been getting mopped up by Hamas since the ceasefire.
roadbuster•2h ago
I used to send inquiries to Google about their policies on political ads. This is partly because, in 2024, they said they were implementing "pauses" on certain types of political content:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/tech/social-media-election-ad...

I discovered two things. First, Google doesn't care about being consistent, hypocritical, or, really, anything. Second, Israel creates new ad accounts with Google, runs campaigns, then shuts them down. Here's one advertiser ID which I saved in my bookmarks:

https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR122591225072...

mrtksn•1h ago
I'm not convinced that such a direct message does anything. Wouldn't be more effective to run Gaza restaurant ads, implying that there's food everything is fine but even Gazan don't help each other, so why you should care?

I'm saying this because my observation with all that propaganda going on in social media since many years is that they are not this direct, instead they imply stuff and work to create certain framing.

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