Microtargeting

Google, just like Meta, banned political ads in the EU in 2025. We found political ads from Dutch parties in Google’s own Transparency Center. It gets worse: even more ads are being served on news websites through Google’s infrastructure with no trace in their transparency tools at all.

In this post I briefly discuss the targeted campaign that Department of Homeland Security is running to threaten people with Latin American background with deportation.

In this post I briefly discuss the likely undisclosed ads that Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry is running on Google.

In this post I analyze digital ad spending in recent German parliamentary election.

How the ad delivery algorithm may affect the distribution of political ads.

Discover how Dutch political parties used digital platforms to target you.

Short answer: very common.