Advertisements for The Sydney Opera House were running on anti-feminist YouTube videos criticising single and working mums sparking fresh calls for greater regulation of online advertising giants.
BOILER-PIPE: The Age on Monday, YouTube owner Google removed advertisements from the video and the channel. A Sydney Opera House spokeswoman said the company did "not endorse the content in these videos and has taken immediate action to blacklist this channel and remove this content". Advertisement She said the business was already following Google's brand safety principles and had a blacklist of exclusions and keywords that covered more than 100,000 websites.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims said there needed to be a "government body" scrutinising the platforms. Loading “We think that it shouldn’t just be up to the public or journalists to keep raising the alarm and Facebook or Google saying they’ll fix it. We think there should be some systematic scrutiny of Facebook and Google," Mr Sims said.
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