Extremists and hate preachers are estimated by marketing experts to have made at least $318,000 (£250,000) from adverts for household brands and government departments placed alongside their YouTube videos.
Google, whoch owns YouTube, is estimated by internet analysts to have taken a cut of $149,000 from advertisers for its role placing the ads against the content, even though brands did not want their names associated with the hate speech.
Wagdi Ghoneim, an Egyptian-Qatari Salafi Muslim preacher who has been banned from entering the UK due to concerns he is seeking to provoke others to commit terrorist acts, is estimated to have made $78,000 from adverts placed in anti-western propaganda videos.
Källa: Extremists made £250,000 from ads for UK brands on Google, say experts | Technology | The Guardian
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