Transparency

It's Not Just Meta: Political Parties in the Netherlands Are Advertising with Google Ads Despite Ban

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.

Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry Runs Undisclosed Ads on Google

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