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Google email shows it ruled Israel’s ads claiming ‘There is food in Gaza’ aren’t misleading

Democracy Dies in Darkness

An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

A screenshot taken from an Israeli ad run on Google. (YouTube)

In August, two days after the U.N.-backed global hunger monitor declared a rapidly spreading famine in the Gaza City region, Israel’s Foreign Ministry posted a YouTube video that made an opposite claim: “Cynical politicians and biased media are lying.”