How big tech's ad systems helped fund child abuse online 18 hours ago Thomas Germain @thomasgermain Getty Images Some of the biggest tech companies in the world served ads on a website featuring images of child abuse, helping to fund its operations. Getty Images Advertising money from Fortune 500 companies and even the US Government may have found its way …
Next time you’re checking sports news online, double-check the URL. For instance, a headline like “Red Sox Urged to Risk Passing on Alex Bregman in Favor of $427 Million Superstar” looks ordinary enough—and it seems, at first glance, to come from BBC Sports. “We did not approve the ‘BBC Sportss’ content, and it is in fact plagiarized,” says Sports Illustrated …
Movie and music piracy thrives online in part because crafty website operators receive advertising dollars from major companies like Comcast, Ford and McDonald’s. “ placed their ads on the assumption that they were going to be on high-quality sites and they’re not,” said Mark Berns, vice president of MediaLink LLC, a consulting firm that produced a study looking into the …
