Google logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen photographed with Russian flag in the background for the illustration photo taken in Poland on July 19, 2022. Google was fined about $373 million by a Russian court for a repeated failure to remove content straying from the Kremlins approved narrative about its invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
  • Google says it took additional steps in the past week so that brands would no longer see their ads on Russian state-owned websites that are a regular source of Ukraine war propaganda.
  • The move came after a software developer tweeted screenshots of ads from major Western companies placed through Google’s display network alongside headlines spreading disinformation about the war.
  • The tweeted screenshots provoked outrage over the advertising revenue that Google and the propaganda sites were making from these ads. 
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