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Swede

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Tue Nov 30, 2021, 10:52 PM Nov 2021

How Steve Bannon Has Exploited Google Ads to Monetize Extremism

Google also confirmed to ProPublica that it has at times blocked ads from appearing on Bannon’s War Room website alongside individual articles that violate Google’s rules.

But Bannon found a loophole in Google’s policies that let him keep earning ad money on his site’s homepage.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-steve-bannon-has-exploited-google-ads-to-monetize-extremism?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1175939

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Google helps fund these terrorists while also profiting handsomely through their "super chat" PSPS Nov 2021 #1

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1. Google helps fund these terrorists while also profiting handsomely through their "super chat"
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 11:36 PM
Nov 2021

1. Become a well-known terrorist "celebrity" through twitter, trump, the media, whatever
2. Drive traffic to your Youtube channel or, if you've been banned, anther terrorist's YouTube channel
3. Promote a "live stream" broadcast that all of your fans will watch
4. Ask them to "donate" money for "the cause," whatever you can think of that stokes the most outrage
5. Some watchers will click the $ button in chat with their spittle-drenched fingers and specify any amount. No upper or lower limit.
6. Google rakes 40% off the top and sends you a check for the remaining 60%
7. Use your slush fund as you wish: hookers, yachts, planes, senators, bombs, MAGA hats, etc.

If you do this daily, have 3,000 watchers with just 10% of them donating $10 each time, that's $21,000 per week. Google takes $8,400 and you take $12,600.

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