Editing Google (section)

==== Climate change denial and misinformation ====
Google donates to [[climate change denial]] political groups including the [[State Policy Network]] and the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kirchgaessner |first=Stephanie |date=October 11, 2019 |title=Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers |access-date=February 7, 2020 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kirchgaessner |first=Stephanie |date=October 11, 2019 |title=The obscure law that explains why Google backs climate deniers |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/obscure-law-google-climate-deniers-section-230 |access-date=February 7, 2020 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The company also actively funds and profits from climate [[disinformation]] by monetizing ad spaces on most of the largest climate disinformation sites.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Major Ad Platforms Profit Off Climate Disinformation (And Fund It, Too) |url=https://foe.org/news/dewey-ad-report/ |access-date=November 2, 2022 |website=Friends of the Earth |date=October 20, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> Google continued to monetize and profit from sites propagating climate disinformation even after the company updated their policy to prohibit placing their ads on similar sites.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 20, 2022 |title=Briefing Note: Programmatic Digital Advertisements and Climate Disinformation |url=https://foeus.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Briefing-Note-Programmatic-Digital-Ads-and-Disinfo.pdf |publisher=Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD)}}</ref>