Trumpet of Patriots ad shown 10 million times before Google removal
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An electoral announcement from The Political Party of the Trum of Clive Palmer of Patriots It was removed from Google for a violation of politics, but only after being shown over 10 million times to Australians for a period of two weeks.
It was said that the announcement, which presented a segment of a documentary of two decades, would expose “the truth about climate change” according to the party, which spent up to $ 200,000 promoting it before it was removed.
An electoral announcement from the Clive Palmer trummer of the Patriots political party was removed from Google for a violation of politics.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
At the beginning of this week, the climatic scientist of the University of Melbourne David Karoly told the ABC verification team that the announcement contained misleading information and statements about climate change. But he remained available online and was shown to the Australians on the video platform of the mass market.
Show a four -minute fragment from the film The day of the judgment canceled, Issued in 2004 by the Danish documentary director Lars Oxfeldt Mortensen. While the video was blocked by Google to be used as a political advertising, it remains available for viewing the trumpet of the main YouTube page of Patriots and on its website.
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The segment presents a scientist, Jogen Peder Steffensen, specialized in the climate research of the ice core at the University of Copenhagen, stating that, according to his discoveries, it is difficult to demonstrate that the temperature increases of the 20th century have decreased by artificial causes or if they are natural variations.
The trumpet of Patriots Party has spent $ 1,812,600 only with YouTube announcements in the last 30 days, with the announcement in question his single larger outlay.
On Friday, the Google’s transparency portal showed that the announcement had been removed “for a violation of politics” after racing for a period of 15 days starting from March 15th.
